If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?
When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
