I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

I'm happy with the way I look, but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.