The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
If someone comes to you with, ‘It’s my kid’s graduation,’ you don’t tell them, ‘Sorry, you can’t go to that.’ You just don’t do that. You figure out some other way.
There is no science in creativity. If you don’t give yourself room to fail, you won’t innovate.
What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
Honestly, I’m interested in politics; I’m interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I’m not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I’m focused on running Disney.
When you think about it, media’s the intersection of content and technology – it’s all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular… Technology is enabling even more of that.