Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of ….

This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generat….

There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader….

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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 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….

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 ….

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….

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

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..