We got killed in Newsweek.
I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.
When we first started DreamWorks, I said to Jeffrey, ‘We ought to call this new company the Spielberg Brothers. Anything Steven thinks is important, we want to invest in.
We all acquire damage as infants and children and we work on removing those scars all of our lives. You won’t heal everything, but what’s important is the work.
I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.
[On being told that he should be an agent with him having no acting ‘gifts’. And saying that you need to know absolutely nothing to be an agent.] I thought that’s the job for me.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
You can’t interview my brother! We can call this thing off – right now!
If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
[The New York Times] don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t – they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good.
I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.
[on Megyn Kelly] You could see there was bloody coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.
When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
Matt Drudge is a great gentleman, who really – he’s got an ability to capture stories that people want to see
I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
I can understand the British media and why they are doing that. It does not add up to much. I’m used in my life to not paying much attention to some things.
We want someone to bring us the news.
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
