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15 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“First, he bought the pre-1948 Paramount library for Universal, and he made a decision, basically, that it was better economics on the other side of the deal.”
02 / belief
“I think that you could safely compare the studio system to today's NFL. They had people that made a lot of money.”
03 / belief
“I said to Don Keough and Roberto Goizueta, look, I think you guys are making a mistake with your advertising.”
04 / commitment
“The one thing about going to Disney that I will say was positive, man, it's easier to be a buyer because everyone's calling you.”
05 / belief
“Prior to that, artists were paid what's called flats, which is a flat fee, and they didn't get basic participation. I think that what he did is he changed the entire fabric of the business.”
06 / evaluation
“What we resented at William Morris is that one agent coveted one client, and you couldn't go anywhere with that because human nature is such that eventually, there's a relationship problem.”
07 / prediction
“Rosenberg said, you know, we're going to have the best television agency in history because we're never going to sign Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, or any of these people.”
08 / evaluation
“Morita came to see me and wanted to get into owning content because he was upset that Betamax—which was a superior technology to VHS—was losing to VHS.”
09 / preference
“We were his worst nightmare because we created MCA on steroids, and we would never sell any idea or client unpackaged or naked to a studio ever.”
10 / commitment
“The reason we didn't is that our TV clients got paid every Thursday, so we took our commission. But in 1978, we made a decision that we needed to be in the movie business, and the only way we could do that was to dedicate agents to the movie business.”
11 / commitment
“We narrowed it down to five people that we wanted to be in business together. We made a decision to leave and set up our own business and do it our way.”
12 / evaluation
“I wouldn't have known how to give options to so many people at the agency because how do you tell a group that's all for one, one for all, and were splitting all the proceeds?”
13 / evaluation
“I like to think I made the right decision because unlike the decision Lew made where MCA disintegrated, CAA is still going strong today.”
14 / evaluation
“My point of view, 80% of our company thought there was something wrong with me, that I probably had food poisoning or something that went in my head because it just didn't seem to equate to them.”
15 / preference
“I subscribed to 200 magazines and I didn't read them all but I would sit and thumb through them while I was on the phone.”