I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.