And that is what I try to do on Quantum of Content: show how unlikely things fit together in new ways.

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And instead of trying to do things differently on the backside of my career, why not focus on the things I do well, and try to be very good at that?

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But I do look at trends and try to see the direction of things.

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One of the big things I want to do is to try and raise awareness, to show what individuals with disabilities can do.

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And frankly, President Lee and I both have a lot of things to do, and so we try not to have our team sit around tables talking in circles without actually getting anything done.

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Historically Sony has had a lot of trouble integrating, they've been a very vertically integrated company and I know that one of the things that Howard was brought in to do was to try and make the company more horizontal.

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My feeling is that ... you have to be flexible in making people feel comfortable so you can get the best out of them and they feel that they can pretty much do no wrong - and as a director try and guide things in the way that I like to see movies go.

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That's, I think, an important lesson for all of us on this day -- are the things that we can try to do that might have seemed impossible but we know are worth doing, and can we apply those principles that we know to be true in our own lives and our society.

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