The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.