Barry Diller

I don't know if that ever made me feel confident, but it sure spurred me on.

I just wanted to please him more, and I did.

and i'm sincere and often quite blunt that in a way does make people maybe trust you i'm generally very trusting i don't start out untrusting i start out trusting and you have to do a lot to break that trust so i think that that ability to initially trust and people

realize that I am trusting them.

And I don't say, oh, this is a very precious thing.

Please don't screw this up.

Of course, I've been in situations where it's been misplaced, to say the least.

You can't be in business as long as I have to not have

you're trust-broken a lot of times.

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.