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Michael Ovitz

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1591 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Absolutely.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

But is this the best system?

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Unequivocally.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Is it good to have a socialist?

The Knowledge Project
Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

I don't think so.

The Knowledge Project
Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

We've seen that movie before and it doesn't work.

The Knowledge Project
Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Well, I think that, look, the roots of woke culture had some merit, the roots.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And then like anything else in

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

West Los Angeles, they just carried it too far.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

They took it, instead of letting it go from one side of the metronome to the middle, they took it all the way to the other side.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And I think it contributed to the demise of the content business in Hollywood right now.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

I think the content business is in the worst place it's ever been.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And I think this forced wokeness

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

has not been productive i think at the beginning the ideas were wonderful i don't think that people should be predatory on each other by the way that's the history of the entertainment business it needed to stop you know it needed to stop but once it was made known it didn't need to keep going and it did and i think it forced bad creative decisions and it forced

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

our audiences who don't all think that way to go narrow on us and to not want to see the things that we did.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Things that the liberal left in Hollywood think are fantastic may not work for the other half of the country.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

When I grew up, we made movies that everyone wanted to watch.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

We didn't care what your political persuasion was.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

When we did Ghostbusters, I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative,

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

We just want you to laugh.