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.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

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.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.