Lew Wasserman Quotations

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.

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 believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

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

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.