“The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.”

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

I’ve not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I’ll listen to ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.