I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.

'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.

If you've got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and you love, and is also really, really clever, the battle is so much easier.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.

Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.'

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.

People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.