We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.
I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people. " I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.