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I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom. ”
You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful. ”
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. ”
Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there. ”
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. ”
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy. ”
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail. ”
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created. ”
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance. ”
I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work. ”