Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.
I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.
Everything today is "transient. " Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.
There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.
There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U. K. during my lifetime.
The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.