You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

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.

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.