Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison on Thursday declined to comment specifically on a possible bid for Warner Bros. Discovery but did offer a sense of his “mind-set” in any deal: that bigger doesn’t have to be worse for the talent community.

“I think, ironically it was [WBD CEO] David Zaslav last year who said that consolidation in the media business is important. And the way we approach everything” is through the lens of what is good for the talent community, as well as what is good for our shareholders and value creation, and what is good for “storytelling at large,” Ellison said today during a panel at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles.

It may be a hard sell. But he insisted that would go for any combination, making a point of stressing that there are other “a

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