Barry Diller

The great thing is I can't really remember, and I don't have any vengeance.

And that's, again, just luck.

It's not something I would take pride in.

One great thing about the entertainment business has been, in many ways, demonstrations of various excessive personality.

In order to get something done or to be distinguishable from the next person,

excessiveness is not a bad quality.

And also, if you're trying to convince people of things, you probably gotta have either forceful personality, forceful something.

That's just whether you got it or you don't got it.

And today, there is less of it than there was when I was kind of growing up in it, where there was just outsized personalities that, if you're interested in entertainment, this is...

we've read about for a hundred years, that kind of created the business, the motion picture business in particular.

It's now a completely different dynamic, but those outsized personalities were thrilling to be around.

Well, I think the most dramatic change is that the entertainment business, let's say the motion picture business, was kind of encased in its own world during its greatest years of development.

That was what these companies did.

They just made movies, the great movies of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and some in the 90s.

And there's still some good movies made.

I'm not saying that.

But they were worlds unto themselves.

They were important worlds because those movies were exported to the world and became the export of American culture to the world in movies is probably the most extraordinary movement dominating almost every country in the world from the inception of the motion picture business.

And

As time went on, they started doing television, and then they owned cable networks and television networks, et cetera.