I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy..

My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. ….

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself..

Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very i….

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people..

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way..

My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make change….

I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive….

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new thing….

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying ….

The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so ….

We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always though….

We are all forever a work in progress. I mean, that is the truth. You are forever in your whole life a work in progress, and forever there is a 12-ye….

We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't….

Everybody has to find it whatever helps. Religion is very helpful for people. A good friend is very helpful. A priest is very helpful. A rabbi is ver….

I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never ….

Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothi….

I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such great respect for actors, because I can't do what they….

I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and s….

Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won….

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made..