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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist. ”
When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot. ”
I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street. ”
I'm not a political filmmaker. ”
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending. ”
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ”
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory. ”
This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public. ”
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives. ”
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. ”