Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.