No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

When you come in as a new leader, it's really important that people do get to know you and that you are constantly communicating. That's really hard in a big organization.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

I'm a huge believer in the importance of vacations for leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyone else. I work extremely hard - usually 70+ hours a week.

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.