The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, "Does that person merit that salary?" The fact is that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable. [August 2006]
[on filmmaking] It has always been clear. This is a distribution business. [2011]
[on Hollywood] This is a business that eats its elders instead of its young.
Producer credits today are given out like lollipops in a pediatrician's office - to managers, wives, girlfriends, lawyers and development executives. They are the ego-badge of the business.