Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.