Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

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.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.