If you really love FILMS, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a SMALL SCREEN with a mediocre SOUND system and watching it on a GIANT screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

I NEVER WANTED to be MEDIOCRE at ANYTHING.

If you WANT your COMPANY to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its FUTURE - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the CHANCE to have a strong one.

That first COMPANY I started made a lot of money for the VENTURE capitalists - nearly $30 million - but NEXT to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white WORLD, and I wanted Technicolor.

POLITICS is ULTIMATELY not that COMPLICATED a PROFESSION; it's where the MEDIOCRE distinguish themselves.

I'm very AMBITIOUS, MUSICALLY - I want to create great things, not MEDIOCRE work.

Nobody EVER STARTS out to make a MEDIOCRE, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no CONTROL. You're just done, as an actor.

My high-school years were so MEDIOCRE - I MOVED out when I was 16 and STARTED living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a VIDEO NERD.

EVEN if I tried to be my DAD, it WOULD be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing VERSION.

A MEDIOCRE MIND thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes REASONABLY.

There's so MUCH truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is BAD. Some of it is REALLY QUITE mediocre.

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who NEITHER played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. LOUIS Browns and the New YORK Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

I'm REALLY PROUD of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it FIRST came out, GOT probably the most MEDIOCRE reviews of a Pixar film.

My biggest FEAR as an ACTOR is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

I BELIEVE when you WORK hard, even if you are a mediocre ACTOR, the audience connects to you.