I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.