Michael Ovitz

It's funny that you ask that question because I was discussing it yesterday with Tamara, the woman that I am with.

And she's English and very elegant and charming and very manly.

days I can be charming, days I can be not charming and tough.

We're talking about confrontation.

So she doesn't like it, but will do it if pushed.

For me, it's a tool in the toolkit.

That's all it is.

I do a lot of things for friends of mine that are in trouble because

I have been viewed by a lot of my friends as the world's best friend and the world's worst enemy, because I'm just black and white loyal.

It's the way I've been my whole life.

I'm very loyal to my friends, to my family, and to people that have done things for me.

You know, at CA, we kept a list of every single executive

that helped us in the first three or five years that then had trouble.

And we got everyone a job.

And if we couldn't get them a job, we made sure they had money.

Because they helped us when we had nothing.

And boy, there were a lot of people on the list because the entertainment business is not good to elderly people.

It's not Japan.

And it doesn't have a good memory.

And we did.