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.

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.

Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

Man is the measure of all things.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

What you get to choose today is who you are and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.