If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.