If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.
As economies have evolved, the nature of work has always changed.
A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.
When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.
