Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow.

I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.