Tina Brown

I think her role, though, is a really difficult one because, you know, the whole question of a magazine company like Condé Nast has changed so utterly from the times when we were there.

in the great days when SI Newhouse Jr.

owned it.

And we were so lucky to have him, actually, working in this private company where we were just allowed to get on with our work and our creativity.

And I think a lot of her time now is spent on all this kind of corporate hell.

So, you know, I think that she must love what she does.

Do I regret leaving the New Yorker to go and work with Harvey Weinstein?

Let's cut to the chase here.

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.