I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

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.

Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.

In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.