Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very important.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

What you guys want, I'm for.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

All that matters is when you show your fans love it's like you're one of them.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.