I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Death is not the only possible outcome.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.

My favorite color is blue, and my secret favorite color is pink.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.