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How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 43:04 David Senra An idea first conceived by Nolan when he was 16, nursed at university, elaborated upon when he came to Hollywood, and finally executed in the wake of the Dark Knight's success. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 48:15 David Senra By the age of 30, he had made nine commercially successful movies at a time when Hollywood was on the technological frontier.
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 23:21 David Senra Lucille Ball was probably the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time she starts mentoring Arnold, and she gave him hilarious advice that he actually applied verbatim. 2 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 6:30 David Senra With CAA's power behind me, I could, for a time, make almost anything in Hollywood happen through leverage, acumen, and sheer self-belief. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 David Senra So he starts reading about all the history of, of all these biographies, the, the history of Hollywood, and he just was, he loved the, what he calls the foul-mouthed magnets who founded the modern film business were fascinating. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:19 David Senra I'm surrounded by, you're in Hollywood, there's wealth, and there's mansions, and there's fame, and I'm embarrassed I have to take my wife out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:04 David Senra You know, they're, they're, they're late twenties and they have, they get this letter from one of the most powerful attorneys in Hollywood saying, you know, essentially we're going to just crush you.
- ▶ 1:02:02 David Senra And so he says, I read all the great books on Hollywood's history and seen every Oscar-winning film going back to 1929, but I didn't get movies until I started watching them with Marty, Martin Torsese in the late eighties.
- ▶ 1:18:13 David Senra In Hollywood, people didn't know, didn't know the difference between Goldman Sachs and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 4:50 David Senra And what he realized is like this, this, this, these filing cabinets that are the length of a basketball court, they actually hold 70 years of history on Hollywood.
- ▶ 11:33 David Senra He was like the last Hollywood mogul. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 David Senra He's in his late seventies and he's got tons of energy and he's working really hard, but he has got a great line in his autobiography where he says, nothing in Hollywood is anything until it's something.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 8:34 David Senra This is not Hollywood 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 32:03 David Senra He's in Kansas city. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 36:27 David Senra That was the worst of Hollywood. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 David Senra I don't want to live in Hollywood. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:47 David Senra He says it's the perfect opportunity to become independent of the Hollywood system.
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 15:09 David Senra And because I was watching the most challenging movies of the greatest movie making era in the history of Hollywood, they were right.
- ▶ 19:35 David Senra The reason I brought this up is because he talks about, you know, I felt I was more sophisticated than my classmates because I was watching the most challenging movies of the greatest movie making error in the history of Hollywood.
- ▶ 44:11 David Senra The restrictions Hollywood imposed on their product 3 times in the scene
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 1:50 David Senra When her talk show went back on the air in the fall of 1986, she was a bona fide Hollywood celebrity.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 32:08 David Senra He's fighting with, he's like, we managed to alienate the Hollywood studios, the sports leagues, the broadcast networks, and the local stations all over the country.
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 23:45 David Senra They call them young Hollywood types who were starting to collect art, and they would get drawn in by something in the window outside of Gagosian's gallery, if you want to call it a gallery at this point, and then they'd find themselves in…
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra My professional life seemed destined to have one foot in Silicon Valley and the other in Hollywood.
- ▶ 12:00 David Senra It's hard to imagine now, but in 1976, the idea of incorporating high technology into Hollywood filmmaking wasn't just a low priority. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 David Senra That would be the expected move in Hollywood.
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 34:44 David Senra An idea first conceived by Nolan when he was 16, nursed at university, elaborated upon when he came to Hollywood and finally executed in the wake of The Dark Knight's success. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 10:01 David Senra And when he did decide to return to Hollywood with his idea for the first Avatar, Cameron's longtime studio, Fox, almost didn't want to make it.
- ▶ 17:06 David Senra He then ditched Hollywood to spend a decade of his life exploring the deep ocean and the heights of science.
- ▶ 25:22 David Senra He, he, he knew that Orange County was closer to Hollywood.
- ▶ 29:45 David Senra Have launched the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jack Nicholson, and many others in Hollywood.
- ▶ 54:13 David Senra Most of Hollywood was still relying on opticals. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:24 David Senra His movie was the laughing stock of Hollywood. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 David Senra I find the underwater world to be a great anecdote to Hollywood.
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 1:49 David Senra He went from the open spaces to Hollywood, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:05 David Senra And he's selling the footage to a bunch of these companies, and these companies are all located in Hollywood. 5 times in the scene
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
- ▶ 38:14 David Senra As I watched Arnold's film credits mount throughout the eighties, I became stupefied over his success in Hollywood.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:14:29 David Senra He's also known as a famous Hollywood Don Juan who collected and discarded beautiful women the ways
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 1:03:56 David Senra The right culture for the Mayo Clinic is different from the right culture at a Hollywood movie studio.
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 23:18 David Senra The Hollywood people were shrewder about the possibilities, and it wasn't long before Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were banging on Clark's door and asking to be his first customers.
Sam Zell's Autobiography
- ▶ 36:16 David Senra He was like a Hollywood mogul for like four decades. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 55:06 David Senra He was truly proud that he and Lawrence Levy had studied Hollywood closely.