Michael Ovitz
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1,371 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 3 Feb
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I always felt that Hollywood was manufactured for people that had no significant others, no children, no home, no family, nothing except maybe a two-bedroom apartment because they could go out 365 nights a year and find companionship with others in the same boat and do something.
You can't find that in most vocations.
Everyone had to be incredibly well-read.
People were not allowed to recommend
roles or material that they didn't believe in.
That was a big downfall of the agency business for all the years I was in it before, which is people would take a flyer to try to get you convinced of something they didn't believe in.
That's a real weak link in the chain.
We didn't have any of that.
You had to have a passion for what you were doing.
I had an open door policy Friday afternoons.
Anyone could come in and give me something to read.
But since I could only read a certain number of scripts on a weekend, they had to be incredibly passionate about it.
I remember a young agent we had named Amy Grossman.
She was a literary agent and she was terrific.
She came in to me one afternoon and said, I've read something you've got to read.
And I said, okay.
And I gave everybody like two minutes to sell it to me because – and by the way, I do the same thing in my tech investing right now.
If you can't tell me what your business is about and –
20 seconds, you should not do your business because how are you going to market it to the world?
You've got, and I'm not talking about that technical algorithms of AI.
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