Michael Ovitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Absolutely.
But is this the best system?
Unequivocally.
Is it good to have a socialist?
I don't think so.
We've seen that movie before and it doesn't work.
Well, I think that, look, the roots of woke culture had some merit, the roots.
And then like anything else in
West Los Angeles, they just carried it too far.
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.
And I think it contributed to the demise of the content business in Hollywood right now.
I think the content business is in the worst place it's ever been.
And I think this forced wokeness
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
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.
Things that the liberal left in Hollywood think are fantastic may not work for the other half of the country.
When I grew up, we made movies that everyone wanted to watch.
We didn't care what your political persuasion was.
When we did Ghostbusters, I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative,
We just want you to laugh.