I'm reading the way a lot of TECHNOLOGY executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional MEDIA,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media COMPANIES had on public opinion.

When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse INCENTIVE to raise the stock price, PARTICULARLY when the chief executive WANTS to exercise his own options.

Here I am, a struggling actor, and movie executives are saying to me, 'My son's not playing much. What can we do about that?' How do I TELL someone I'm DYING to work with, 'Your kid is KIND of LAZY?'

The Paramount executives were so PLEASED with SUNSET Boulevard that they asked me to do a PUBLICITY TOUR.

All businesses require capital, management and labor, and BUSINESS executives, wanting to grow and maintain PROFITABLE enterprises, have a strong INCENTIVE to keep costs, including labor, as low as POSSIBLE.

I have learned to RESPECT IDEAS, WHEREVER they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big CREATIVE ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't KEEP up with the technology innovation of the industry. They THOUGHT that Yahoo should become a MEDIA company.

We as LABEL executives, we have to KNOW the LIMITATIONS of the ARTISTS.

A LOT of DEALS are DONE or not done because CHIEF executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

I GREW up WATCHING my MOM and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad COULD persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

My attitude about HOLLYWOOD is that I wouldn't walk ACROSS the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was BLEEDING to death. Not UNLESS I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving COMPANY executives than we can the SACRIFICE of the LIVES of our citizens in a senseless WAR.

I fundamentally BELIEVE that your WORDS have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel REALLY comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit FINANCIALLY unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the PLAYING field so much more level.

I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us WOULD GO SEE the worst movie that came out each WEEKEND. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make JOKES.

The paradox is that MARK Zuckerberg, Steve JOBS, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives WORKING at MAJOR RECORD companies.