When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.

Amy Pascal

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The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less mon... by Amy Pascal

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

truth-is walks

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.

grateful running people

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to ev... by Amy Pascal

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

apologizing accepting responsibility

For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

mountain rejection thinking

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

married matter way

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

community wisdom thinking

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie. by Amy Pascal

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

love-to-read

The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.

important jobs character

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people a... by Amy Pascal

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

should people thinking

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

running numbers long

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women m... by Amy Pascal

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

careers

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody would ever take you seriously'. I've been wearing them ever since then!

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending woul... by Amy Pascal

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

sixth-sense

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a complime... by Amy Pascal

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

chicks said compliment

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how... by Amy Pascal

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

direct action people

Marvel has this tradition, and I think that Sony has this tradition too, of hiring directors for Spider-Man who are dramatic directors. That are directors who are interested in human beings, in characters, in drama, and who are really good with actors. That kind of feels like a Spider-Man director to me. And because Spider-Man is always as big as the films that are being made at Marvel, it always is character and story. You can never take that out.

character drama thinking

Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say 'you have to look at this film'. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time.

smart-people smart people

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

character book thinking

I don't think that people think of Marvel in the same way that people think of Pixar. Because Pixar is story-orientated, and they think of these guys as epic movie orientated. But they're story-orientated. That's the secret.

epic people thinking

It's a lot to do with the Marvel ecosystem. It's different from the traditional studio system. Because it is, for how absurdly, incredibly successful they are, it is a family. It is a loving family. It is a group of people who only care about making things good. They don't choose directors who don't want to work with them in the way that they work. And the directors that they choose are better for having done it. Every director who comes out of that system are one kind when they come in, another when they come out. And they usually come back for more. They usually make more than one.

different successful people