Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.