Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.