If I can do things as an employer to make the work interesting, to make it a 'we work hard/we play hard type' of environment, that can have a very positive impact on productivity and the bottom line.

You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But that may be a way to keep employees more engaged.

It's not even necessarily so much that happy employees are good for business. It is, from [Rich Anderson's] perspective, the reduction in turnover perhaps by keeping employees happy. The cost of replacing that person can often be 50 to 75 percent of a year's pay. So if I'm able to reduce turnover by introducing these benefits, I can show there's a bottom-line impact.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'