I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
I'm one of three judges on 'MasterChef' with Gordon Ramsay, but I don't want my own show. I'm kind of used to the sidekick gig.
Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.