We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.