Will Packer

And not just in relationships, but in business, when people show you who they are, you got to believe them.

right?

And I know my good friend Kevin Hart.

We've worked together with each other.

We're each other's most frequent collaborators.

So I know he's the guy that will overbook himself, he'll triple or quadruple book himself because he is very ambitious.

It's my job though to contain that ambition and to hone it and to keep him focused on the bottom line because he oftentimes will not.

And so

In business, you have to know who you're dealing with and working with, what their skill sets are, what their proclivities are, and you have to then adjust accordingly.

Success, as you said, is a bottom line business.

We get too caught up in what's fair and what's not fair, what I'm up against, what somebody else is up against.

Forget all of that.

It matters, but at the end of the day, you're going to be judged differently.

by if you deliver or not, right?

I am successful in Hollywood because I have 10 number one movies.

Does it matter that I was up against bigger stars?

No.

Does it matter that I had to go up against movies that had bigger budgets or I had, you know, extenuating circumstances that I couldn't control on the weekend of the releases of some of my films?

None of that matters.

What matters is the bottom line that I have been able to be successful according to the quantifiable metrics of that particular industry.