Ari Emanuel

And I didn't have a job.

I didn't know what I was going to go to business school, back to Northwestern on night school, business school.

And I was going to work at the Merck because I used to do summer jobs at the Merck in the pits, 2 and 20, 2 and 20.

I used to do all that.

I thought I was going to do that.

It was good math.

And for whatever reason, the minute he told me that, I said, that's a gig for me.

Got a job working for this guy by the name of Robbie Lance.

I was working for Bob Duva, who went to work for Robbie Lance.

And it just started.

I helped with the Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammond Estates, making rights deals for them and organized it properly.

He was, I think at the time, 86.

And he turns to me, and I was doing a really good job.

And he says, I'm not promoting anybody.

You should go out to LA and you can make a lot of money.

And he set up two interviews for me, one at CAA and one at this company called Leading Artists.

and got the job in the mailroom at CA making 15 cents a mile.

That I hated it.

I learned how to actually drive around LA and I learned the hierarchy of the business, business affairs people, studio heads at the time where movie stars played, the movie business, how important it was, but the television business made a lot of money.

And I realized I could never be in the movie business.