The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.