Michael Ovitz

I didn't go into business to win a popularity contest.

I went into business to win.

You know, when Michael Crichton gave me the book of Jurassic Park, I put the right director with it, Steven Spielberg.

There was no second choice.

I thought these power lists that they developed in the entertainment business were just sheer nonsense.

It's an ephemeral thing power and it's fleeting and it doesn't last.

And if you don't believe that, take a look at anyone that's had it.

It's like a lease.

It has a closed end and never a good one.

I have been viewed by a lot of my friends as the world's best friend and the world's worst enemy.

Well, I don't, I, you know, it's a really great question.

I'm not sure, frankly, because one of my

I love the internet and I love being on my computer to the point where my significant other wants to kill me sometimes because I just love surfing through the internet and going down rabbit holes.

First of all, there's a...

David Geffen and Barry Diller and I are very dissimilar human beings, but we do share a couple of very similar traits.

All three of us cut our teeth in the early years in the entertainment business.

All three of us have voracious appetites for learning, and all three of us have a voracious appetite to read.

David and Barry are two of the smartest guys that I know, and

They're on top of everything.

If you talk to them, you know, it's extraordinary how well read they are.