Happy Birthday: Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Born: December 21, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA

Of this much I’m certain: If you write a good script with a great premise, you’ll have a big hit. If you write a bad script with a great premise you’ll still make money. But if you write a great script with a bad premise, success is not likely.

[on how he got a reluctant Leonard Nimoy to reprise his role as Mr. Spock for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”] “All I remember is being in a restaurant in New York with Leonard, and begging on my hands and knees. It worked.”

If you asked 100 people to list 100 words to describe me, not one of them would have ‘patient’ written down. The irony is that the medium I find myself in love with and devoted to takes infinite patience.

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