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.

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.

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.

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.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.