The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

Yes, DVDs are gone, but there is this wonderful Internet platform out there called YouTube.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.