I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.