"I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl."

"We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways."

"My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis."

"I'd never made a teen comedy in my life."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."

"Never give in and never give up."

"It is a humble truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."