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Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.