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You can find the transcript of this episode here. This episode was recorded in front of a live, sold-out audience of about 2,000 people at Summit LA17 in Los Angeles.

How to develop better decision-making abilities.

Brian’s criteria for choosing what movies to make.

How to pitch people to create opportunity.

Brian’s “supertool” that helped him get ahead in business.

In 2007, he was named one of Time ‘s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” His films and TV series have been nominated for 43 Academy Awards and 131 Emmys. In 2002, Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind (shared with Ron Howard). Grazer and his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard began their collaboration in 1985 on the hit comedies Nightshift and Splash, and in 1986 they founded Imagine Entertainment.

Brian Grazer ( is an Academy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author ( A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, with Charles Fishman) who has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years.

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