87 Quotes by Brian Grazer

I like challenges; I like excitement. I like entering different worlds and trying to succeed - not excel, but succeed.

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.

I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.