If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Many people in technology say the killer app is pirated content, ... Some feel the availability of illegal content sells computers. It's very hard to negotiate with an industry that thinks its short-term growth is dependent on theft.
There have been some economic challenges, and of course 9/11, and then this year there's been like a strike a day, and then they had the heat wave, where 10,000 people died, so therefore not even the pixie dust that Disney has can help,
I don't worry about the stock price, ... I worry about what we do and how we do it, and if we do it well and if people like what we do, they'll come to our properties. If they come to our properties, we'll do well financially and the stock market reflects that.
I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.