Tina Brown

I don't think that was a brilliant career move, I have to say.

So I certainly regret that.

But I've also had a very interesting life since.

I was never going to be a keeper at Condé Nast.

I mean, I was there for 17 years.

That's a long time.

Personally, I think 10 years is the right amount of time to be the editor of something.

Actually, I was eight and a half years at Vanity Fair, and then I was, I think, six and a half years at The New Yorker when I left, lured away by Harvey Weinstein to start Talk magazine.

But, you know, I'm a very restive, creative person, and there's no way that I would have ever stayed to be the symbol of Condé Nast, no.

Well, my major frustration, and it was sexist, I didn't think at the time, but I now realize was, was that as great as Cy Newhouse was sort of as a boss...

It was a very patronizing relationship in the sense that he was not interested in my views of how the business should be run, essentially.

I said, I thought we should have a production company.

I thought we should be doing festivals, you know, conferences.

I did one conference.

I managed to slip one in.

And I said, I think we should be doing live events.

And I laid out this whole kind of thing.

And he just looked at me and he said, stick to your knitting, Tina.

You're an editor.

Is that a quote?