Michael Ovitz

And I see my book sitting there with a zillion post-its sticking out of it.

He said, okay, let's start.

I said, what are we starting?

He said, I have marked every place in your book where you said you made a mistake.

I said, oh, okay.

And he said, I want to know the conditions.

that you were under when you made the decision, what you might have done differently, and what would have happened if you did it differently.

And we sat there for three hours.

And what I realized is he didn't care about any of the good things I did or any of the things that turned out to be successful or kind of revolutionary in the entertainment.

He wasn't interested.

No interest.

He wanted to know the mistakes so he wouldn't make them.

That, to me...

was not smart, it was wise.

That was a grade above normal.

I've made so many mistakes in my business life, in my personal life, in my art collecting career.

And that's why I did that lunch in London, because it hasn't stopped me.

I don't look back.

It's history.

I don't look back.