Jerry Weintraub (born September 26, 1937) is an American film producer and former chairman and CEO of United Artists. He now lives in Palm Desert, California. Read full biography of Jerry Weintraub →
I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like... →
If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to... →
I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I... →
I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand... →
I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something... →
People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I... →
Will Smith is fantastic.
When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important... →
Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.