I Am King Of The World!

Targets And Timetables Do Matter. But There Is A Dispirited Feeling That The U.s. Just Rejects Multilateral Target-setting For The Time Being.

That Worst Evil Of Long Dictatorships: The Loss Of All Political Experience.

I Tried [being A Mogul]. It Bores Me. I Don't Really Want To Produce Other People's Movies. Because They're Either Grown-up Filmmakers Like Steven Soderbergh Or Kathryn Bigelow That Didn't Really Need Me - And I've Produced Both Of Them. It's Fun To Sit Around With Them And Be Collegial, But They Don't Need Me. They Can Make The Film Without Me. I Make My Own Stuff. There Are Tons And Tons Of Other Things I'm Interested In That Have Nothing To Do With Movies Or Are Documentary Projects.

Getting The Audience To Cry For The Terminator At The End Of T2, For Me That Was The Whole Purpose Of Making That Film. If You Can Get The Audience To Feel Emotion For A Character That In The Previous Film You Despised Utterly And Were Terrified By, Then That's A Cinematic Arc.

So My Message Is In Whichever Realm, Be It Going Into Space Or Going Into The Deep Sea, You Have To Balance The Yin And Yang Of Caution And Boldness, Risk Aversion And Risk Taking, Fear And Fearlessness. No Great Accomplishment Takes Place, Whether It Be A Movie Or A Deep Ocean Expedition, Or A Space Mission, Without A Kind Of Dynamic Equipoise Between The Two. Luck Is Not A Factor. Hope Is Not A Strategy. Fear Is Not An Option.