Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.