Michael Ovitz

I couldn't agree with him more.

I have zero interest in anybody's opinion unless it's an op-ed piece.

Then I know it's an opinion and that's okay because I've looked for it.

I don't want an opinion in a factual news piece.

I'm not interested in what somebody thinks when they're writing about something that's happened in the Mideast, that it's not this, it's not that.

There's reasons for all of it.

Do I agree with them?

No.

Or sometimes yes, but I don't want the writer's opinion.

Exactly what it says.

First of all, mediocrity to me is a disease that you have to get rid of at all costs.

I can't stand talking to people that suffer from that disease where they have no interest

You know, sometimes you sit blindly next to someone at a dinner party and you try to talk to them and they have no interest in anything.

And I just can't deal with it because I want to be challenged.

I want to be pushed.

I want to be asked questions.

I want to be told I'm wrong.

I wanted that kid at that dinner in front of the other 10 young people, my daughter's friends, to defend his position.

But what happened is in one sentence that I gave him, he couldn't defend it.

It was indefensible.