Bob Iger Quotes
Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
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Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.
