I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.
I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
You have to be persistent.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.
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