Sean Callagy
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You know, you want, life is long.
You want to have a reputation that if someone makes a deal with you, it pays off for them.
And so you don't ask, or at least I didn't ask for everything.
And it's, I'm proud that he said that because it, you know.
Integrity.
Let's hear for David.
Can I, please, I cut you off, please finish.
Oh, the last thing I'd say, I guess, is the stuff you talked about in terms of being focused on the details from the business spectrum, from a zero-based approach to a business like I was doing with Hollywood to dealing with people and getting a yes or at least a chance from them,
You know, we also had fun creatively with that, and it was at a great, Kevin Feige, who runs the company now, was my president of production, I was his boss, and I'm really proud of recognizing his talent, because he was just a junior kid in the hallways when I got there, and Ike had to support me, without getting into details about
changing some of the personnel at Marvel.
And so I needed a new, I was elevated to chairman and I needed a president of production.
And I did a battlefield promotion of Kevin.
And when I sold the company and put him in charge to run it so I could do other things.
And he's done a great job over the past decade plus.
But he and I would look at every second of the movie and how to plus it was our term.
There's got to be a way to plus it.
We never would pat ourselves on the back a lot.
We'd be like, what can we do?
And just had a blast with, you know, there's a cave sequence in Iron Man, if you watch it again, where he's in that cave with one other guy, and that's where he builds the first suit.
That scene is almost 20 minutes long in the movie.