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

For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.

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.

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.