I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.

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.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

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.