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.

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.

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.

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.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.

Football without fans is nothing.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.