Barry Diller on Building a Multi-Billion Media Machine

It's an irrational exuberance that causes movies to be made at such extraordinary amounts of money.

This week we have legendary executive Barry Diller, the first to cross from television into movies and later the

visionary behind some of the biggest shifts in entertainment. Do you think it was a better business back then? I think it was creatively much better. I

can't bear sequels of these movies that run too long for no good reason and

inexplicable narrative. People in the movie business look down on the people from television as an inferior class of