David Ellison

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Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025 podcast

Look, there's a really healthy debate around inputs that I don't really want to get into because we don't have enough time.

But I think when you look at the outputs, those need to be protected.

But what I would also say is,

As an industry, we do need to embrace technology.

And I think if you look at artificial intelligence, there are several areas to where AI is going to impact our business.

And I actually think it's important to do it in a way that is responsible, that is fundamentally a tool for artists.

So I'll go back to a Pixar story and forgive the semi-long answer to this, but I'll go to this as one that I happen to be able to live through.

I remember basically when Steve and John Lasseter basically built Pixar, the attack on them at the time was that they didn't like animators and they didn't like the medium of animation, which when you talk to either John or Steve, John was a classically trained Walt Disney animator, they loved storytelling, they loved animation.

What they said was, we are just giving the artists a new pencil,

to actually enable them to draw and create something they've never been able to create before.

And I think the reality is, is much like when James Cameron in 1992 basically started doing digital comps as opposed to optical comps, and that was a controversial thing at the time as well.

I do think you were in one of these inflection point moments where

the software CPU pipelines are going to start to be augmented or replaced by model-driven GPU pipelines.

And there's a responsible way to do that, and there's an irresponsible way to do that.

We're going to err on the side of basically partnering with that technology to do it in a way that we think is good for artists.

I'll plead the fifth on that one.

I'll plead the fifth on it.

No, look, what I'll say is Tom is an exceptional pilot.

I started flying when I was 13 years old.

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