I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.
When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.
The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I would even say I am deeply puzzled by this trend. I am not certain what the correct answer should be.
You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.