I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

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.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.

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.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

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.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

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.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

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!‘

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.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

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

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

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

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

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

Our best thoughts come from others.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.