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“Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important. If you look at the skill set that you need to ultimately be a successful private equity investor, at least at the senior level, you have to be, in this business, a good investor. You have to be able to help companies perform and you have to have judgment around exiting investments. If you look at the skill sets there, they include some things you can teach and some that you can't.”
Source : The Harbus Interview, www.harbus.org. February 2, 2004.
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“Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.”
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“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.”
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“My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.”
Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.
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“Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.