Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

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.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

If I flew for you, you would still be standing.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.