Michael Ovitz

And at the end of the day, that's what it's all about is excellence and standing out and doing good things and helping people.

And you can't do any of that if you're personally unhappy.

You have a non-starter on your hands.

Well, I love people, so that's one thing.

Two, I'm very efficient with my communications.

I also

Basically, I collect art and people.

Those are the two things I collect.

And art is easy because it's static.

You can look at it.

You can make a decision.

People is as fascinating, probably more fascinating, but takes a lot of time.

And I put that time in if I really feel that the relationship's a two-way street.

Well, it's interesting.

My thesis on investing, for example, my thesis on hiring people

And kind of my thesis on how I reach out in my life to other people is predicated on how I feel in the first case about the founder and in the second case about people that I meet.

And I like to meet interesting people and I am very lucky

very lucky in that I get to meet some of the most interesting people in the world from all walks of life in every profession.

You know, when I was in the agency business in the 70s, I realized that the entertainment business was a closed-end ecosystem.

And basically,