Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don't want them to be lazy and just spend their father's money.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.