The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.