A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

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.

How young can you die of old age?

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.