Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Peace that was the other name for home.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

When I go home its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.