“The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theat...” — Barry Levinson Quote

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

You can't tell the story of the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by Bernie Madoff because there are thousands of stories. What you can do is to start inside, and that's the picture that you do, which becomes like a Greek tragedy in that regard - that whole collapse.

You used to need a big camera to direct, but now, anyone with an iPhone can tell a story visually. You can film something. You can start off with a five-minute story, then a 10-minute story.

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.