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“Hollywood is irrelevant.”

“Google, absolute monopoly on search, and all your traffic, I mean, at least half your traffic, if you were healthy, would come from people coming directly to you. But the other half, Without which you wouldn't be able to survive came from Google and Google ove…”

“For developed enterprises, it's not the best route. The best route is, to me, a much simpler one. If you create value working in a project, or you create value to whatever degree you create it, You should share in that value on a cash basis, meaning any time p…”

“I've heard a retention arguments from time immemorial, decades of, well, we do this to retain people. I think that's ridiculous. You retain people, people stay in your enterprise because they like what they do, and there's opportunity there. A handcuff, so to …”

“I would approach this next super period in the same way, which would make me very wary of what now seems to be the cat's meow, which is huge expenditures in areas in which there is no known revenue or no known big revenue to relate to, you know, hundreds of bi…”

“Those tech companies essentially have now taken over the old hegemony of quote, Hollywood, and now Netflix and Apple and Amazon.”

“Well, I don't think algorithms can help here. None of us know what's going to happen with the dread and wonderful word AI, but I don't think that, that predictive research Is certainly in the arena of content, worthless. It cannot tell you anything of real val…”

“I think from what I know now, it is not easy today for anyone else to do that other than our competitors can do that today. But it's not easy for any large language model or any Modality that, that I know of.”

“There's no way to disintermediate the experience. I mean, again, if we're in a simulation, we can go into that route, but there's no way as humans, you can find an experience that's going to divert you from all the entertainment offerings that a Las Vegas has …”

“What I have learned is that most people, you think that giving large populations options in the company's securities, that they would hold on to them. And what you find out is 80, 90%. The first moment that they, quote, vest, they cashed them.”

“I have always thought that the best arranging room for that is a group of people who are in conflict with each other, usually past their point of endurance, meaning the longer you push it, I found over time that when you push people somewhat past their enduran…”

“When you're dealing with editorial matters or new ideas or things that aren't yet, There's no research that can help or guide you. It can only mislead you, because it will essentially tell you what the past factual base has delivered to you, which has no relev…”

“No one's going to get between Going to an MGM resort, particularly Las Vegas, in which we have a huge share of Las Vegas. We have 11 properties in Las Vegas. No tech is getting between that and a human.”

“And then you give people more responsibility than they qualify for. Because in that forge, you find out who swims and who doesn't. And if you have that kind of environment, Out of it's gonna come pretty good people.”

“Yeah, well, it's that, but it's also probably the single most profitable entertainment product ever invented.”

“How do you deal when the business model instead of being the audience reaction to it is to take a subscription to prime whose business model is to get you to buy products on Amazon where they offer you on the side Movies and television programs. They could not…”

“I mean, it really is, and if you depend on your life traffic from Google, from search, you're gonna be close to extinct, if that's what you do.”

“And so people who say, well, I need to go out and network, and I hear that, and I think, oh, you fools. I mean, what are you talking about? You don't really need to do that. It's this kind of pro forma thinking of the things you should do, the steps you should…”

“Excessiveness is not a bad quality, and also, if you're trying to convince people of things, you probably gotta have either forceful personality, forceful something.”

“If you were sitting in 1995 or 2000 at the beginning of the things you did not know, and there were plenty of those, there was nothing that Cracked your mind and astounded you and said, oh my god, this is beyond me. This is magic. You could master it. It wasn'…”

“It is more than likely that within a year, but I don't say that, I mean, I think it really is probably truly within a year or so, you really will be able to have a conversation, agentic, this new word, where An agent does work for you. We'll know so much about…”

“The only thing that will save us is our brands and whether our brands and what we, the content we make resonates enough directly for people to recognize a brand and want to be brand involved rather than agnostic. I've, I believe Until the last breath, that bra…”

“I love confrontation because in confrontation, out comes stuff that if you're listening, no matter how noisy that confrontation gets, if your ear is open, You're listening, and he'll hear something, and the thing you hear will be a better truth, at least for m…”

“Like any good employee believes and acts like it's theirs, but that's a delusion. It isn't theirs. It's someone else's.”

“The fairness doctrine was a fundamental tenant of broadcasting, which meant that you had to, in any dissemination of anything, you had to present, if there were two sides to an argument, you had to present them fairly. You had to be fair in your presentation, …”

“Curiosity, I absolutely believe is innate. I mean, I guess people could try, oh, make me curious, you know? Yeah. I don't know how you'd go about that. I think you either have the biology, so much to me is about biology and not necessarily willful direction”

“It was the cash basically from Home Alone that kept the company from going dark before he could refinance his loan package, which took place about a year later.”

“Usually when it's more difficult, the movies come out better. A happy set is a boring set.”

“When you're in a negotiation, you better be prepared. If I say no to blow the deal or you're never going to get what you want. And it was the greatest lesson in leverage and in organizing in your brain, how far you're prepared to go. And if you must, and you m…”

“So, I think that that lack of a sense of self, oddly, it enabled me in the earliest part of my career to please others to such an extent that it got me going, and once I got going, I just kept going, and I think that that, in a sense, lack of confidence or lac…”

“What works is if you get lucky enough to get a position that you don't have experience for, that you haven't mastered, and then you just go about doing it, the sparks you set off naturally impress others and lead. They drag you to the next step. You don't have…”

“I'm generally very trusting. I don't start out untrusting. I start out trusting, and you have to do a lot to break that trust.”

“Today, there is less of it than there was when I was kind of growing up in it, where there was just outsized personalities that, if you're interested in entertainment, this is We've read about for a hundred years, ah, that kind of created the business, the mot…”

“If your Amazon and your main business Is subscriptions in prime and you offer content as kind of the thing in the front of the store to get people to come in. You're so far away. It's a different business model.”

“Because as you gain experience, the natural tendency is to be cynical, or is to be sophisticated, is to know things. And it's something that I've just learned to fight against, not always successfully.”

“Presuming you run a straight organization, meaning, in other words, presuming you're not Engaged in nefarious stuff, but if something happens, and it doesn't necessarily be somebody stealing, it could be one of your products has some antisocial thing that you …”

“I had this one big fear about sexuality that kind of obliterated all other fears. And so I was not, it turned out, which I was a total discovery because I didn't know it. Of course I'd never been in such confrontations. I had no fear of business situations. I …”

“You really have to have to try very hard to keep those instincts of yours as fresh and clean as you can, which means you have to fight cynicism. You have to fight being sophisticated. You have to hold on To a certain form, even if you make it up of naivete, be…”

“I think if I had grown up in a different environment, and I wasn't in this dysfunctional environment that I was in with all these other issues, I'd probably end up a shoe clerk, and that's not a terror, this terrible thing.”

“I took the job no one else wanted. They all wanted to go, in that horrible word, network around, meet people, press people, do whatever. I went to the dungeon and had this job that allowed me basically almost the entire day to read, and that's what I did for t…”