When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.
And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.
There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.
I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
