For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.
Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.
Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.
I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
