I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

We don't feel Universal belongs in the independent movie business,

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.