Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

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.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

I love hard and still haven’t a clue what it feels like…

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.