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Michael Ovitz preferred negotiating with conflicted people to ensure deals closed
“You know, I've always felt, and I still do, I'm really interested in dealing with conflicted people because if you have a conflict, in essence, you want it to work out on both sides. So a lot of times I'll go to someone with a heavy conflict to this day to wor…”
Ovitz: Tech investing is the same packaging playbook as Hollywood agency representation
“All of the training I had as an agent has led me to a career in the digital world that's fantastic because what am I doing? I'm packaging. I'm putting young founders together with money and distribution, and nothing different than I did for 35 years. It's all …”
Ovitz: Magazine editors were six months ahead of culture due to lead times
“My thesis was that art directors of magazines and editors were always six months ahead of, They had to be, because it took three months to get a magazine out, and a month to let it sit on a newsstand. So they had to think six months in advance.”
Ovitz: TV packaging centers on producers while movie packaging centers on directors
“William Morris was the top television packaging agency, and we all knew how to package television, but it's very different than packaging movies, because in television, the producer is a key element, and in movies, it's the director.”