with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

Self-love knows no impediment.

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.