20 Quotes by Lew Wasserman

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.

Historically, they have tended to avoid being active, because they had some concern about it helping or hurting them, as the case may be.

Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.

We had no difficulty whatsoever in raising a great deal of money in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement.

We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury.

It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.