You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?