In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.