David Geffen

If you’re successful, people will talk about you. There’s nothing you can do about it. People make up stories.

[On urging Nyro to tell Barbara Streisand that ‘Wedding Bell Blues’ had been personally written for her] It’s not a big lie.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

I forgive you for all the times you’ve f**ked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f**k me in the future.

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

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.

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.

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.

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.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.

One of the more radical and interesting possible ways to limit the power of unaccountable media barons is to give journalists the power to elect editors and have seats on boards for workers and consumers when a title or programme gets particularly large and influential.

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.

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

I notice in some of the newspapers that they have taken a bit of an interest in me. According to one headline Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid wiping out humanity. Asteroids are pretty controversial and it is not the kind of thing I would want to rule out… without a full debate at conference and a review so can we have the debate later in the week.

My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.

[on Megyn Kelly] You could see there was bloody coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.