Michael Ovitz

I want us to be the best.

If you want to have a second or third choice, that's okay, but we're the first choice.

So we had to be the best.

And I wasn't running for high school president.

I had already done that.

I won that at a 4,000-kid high school I was president.

I don't think I was made president because I was popular, frankly.

I was made president because I got stuff done.

And people knew that.

I've been that way my whole life.

You ask me to do something, I'll get it done.

When I need something done, I ask the busiest person I know to do it because they'll get it done.

Ask someone with too much time, it never gets done.

Well, when people help you, and it wasn't in the long-term culture of the entertainment business.

Short-term, it's, you know, the entertainment is a transactional friendship business.

Are these people really your friends?

I'm not so sure.

You know, but while they can help you, they're your friends.

But if someone helped us get started and we started from scratch on card tables,

with no money.