The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.