A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.
Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.
And when something's working they want to go back to it until it's not safe anymore.
Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.
But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
Certainly it's helped our business enormously because a lot of actors and directors, who chances are an audience wouldn't see in a theater, get exposed on DVD.
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.
For more than 400 Sailors and Marines in the California, Texas and Hawaii areas, the movies aren't a distant dream. They're a reality.
I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
I get involved in the pilots, the casting of the pilots, the choosing of the directors, the honing of the pilots, editing them.
I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.
I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.
I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.
I love the Lord of the Rings series.
I make movies based on gut.
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
I only make movies I want to go see.
I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.
I think all of us like to do things to the best of our ability and it has nothing to do with competition factor, it has to do with quality.
I think it's another way to enjoy the movie you can have in your own living room. You can study parts of the movie, you can rewind them, and you can listen to the filmmakers talk about what they did.
I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.
I try to do things that are different, and we wanted to do something for little kids.
I'm a patriot. I've traveled all around the world, and I believe this is the best country in the world to live in.
I've just got to just keep looking ahead and worrying about what's coming up next.
If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.
It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.
Kids don't even know about Pearl Harbor. We think it's important to show what happened and how we came out of the ashes.
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
Pirates was easy because Disney wanted me to do it because it's a theme, it's a park ride, so they wanted to capitalize on the synergy of a big movie being out there and promoting their parks.
Ridley made the picture he wanted to make, and I'm enormously proud of it and thrilled with his work. I think it's brilliant.
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
The military is there to keep peace, and by keeping peace, we have a real strong presence in the world. And we need that.
The whole world has changed after September 11th.
There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
Video is another way of seeing movies.
We also want to attract the best and the brightest to the military, so we don't want to make them look terrible.
We are looking for experts on Pearl Harbor to make sure our script is accurate, within the confines of the drama, to work with us and make sure we're doing the right thing.
We don't live our lives the same way; we don't look at things the same way. We've changed the way we travel; we've changed just about everything.
We hope to appeal to viewers with both the romance angle and the historical significance of Pearl Harbor.
We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.
We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.
Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.
You might be fooled by our approach to King Arthur because we're telling it from where the legend sprang from: That Arthur was really Roman.
We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
If I made films for the critics, or for someone else, I'd probably be living in some small Hollywood studio apartment.
Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.
I think that there's a certain synchronicity, so far, with what I like and with what the audiences like. But I don't make the movies for them. I make them because I wanna go see them myself.
Top Gun is no different from Pirates of the Caribbean - in fact they're very similar because both movies were working in genres that were dead. Fighter pilot movies had all failed and pirate movies had been dead for a long time. We approached them from a different angle.
I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.
Graduated with a degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona
Roomed with producing partner Don Simpson.
Ranked #19 on Premiere's 2003 annual Hollywood Power List. Had ranked #22 in 2002.
Early in his career, he produced television commercials.
Owns a home in Bardstown, Kentucky.
Big fan of the band The Who.
Had a power ranking of 42 and was the 10th ranked money earner on the 2006 Forbes Celebrity 100 list, with 2005-06 earnings of $84 million. The earnings were mostly due to syndication residuals from the three "C.S.I." shows.
Ranked #10 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. Had also ranked #10 on the 2005 list.
Has a Gulfstream IV jet.
Owns a 1500-acre farm in Kentucky and also another in Ojai, south of Santa Barbara.
Often uses Michael Bay to direct his movies.
Father was a salesman.
Studied psychology in university.
Has a stepdaughter.
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