Investment of Resources Quotes

Time is money.

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Sweat equity is the best equity.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.

If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.

Some roles require less, and some roles require a great deal of commitment.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

I really emotionally invest in everything that I do.

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.