It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.
I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.
I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.
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.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts.'
The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.
I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.
When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.
I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
