DAVID GEFFEN: When I was an independent, when I had Geffen Films, I tried to do business with CAA. I tried to have a good relationship with Mike Ovitz. Unfortunately, that never seemed to work out. He’d make lots of promises and never kept them. So I had a lot of problems with Mike Ovitz over the years. I helped him get his first very big star, which was Paul Newman. I would say without question that he was always grateful and never behaved as such.
