There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.
The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we - humanitarians - have been complicit.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
