I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

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.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.