“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.”

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.

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.

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

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.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours’ eyes.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

It’s an accompaniment to life. It’s not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes…I don’t know any other feeling.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.

In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.