“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.”

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – whatever platforms emerge – we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business.

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that’s fantastic.

Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don’t hide from them.

And it’s only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we’ll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII in 2017, and we’ll finish this trilogy with Episode IX in 2019.

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There’s no such thing as perfection.

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.