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.

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.

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.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Everything diminishes and everything is destructible.

Everything gets better with milk.

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

You're still here," he whispered. "They couldn't drag me away.

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

Who am I, Jesus, that You'd call me by name?

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.