These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Love is the greatest divine-self.

Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

Never give up on what you really want to do

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

First of all we need to move past the euro.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.