What are you most proud of?

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Yes, and that gives me incredible pride, and the fact that Ruvkun is the other awardee, is incredible, because Gary is such a good friend. I mean you ask me what my first sense was, it’s surprise, and secondly of course it’s a kind of muted joy because, you know, whenever this kind of thing happens to basic scientists, especially scientists working on the nematode, I think it’s a wonderful thing for everybody doing this kind of work.

Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, The Nobel Prize, October 2024 source ↗

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Bong Joon-ho Film director and screenwriter
I wanted to create a very delicate and detailed film where you would feel like you could even smell every single character.
Recorded The Talks interview, 12 February 2020 source ↗
Yaya Touré Ivorian former footballer; Barcelona, Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder, now a coach
What I'm the most proud of is the opportunity to help City to start the journey to be one of the elite clubs in England now.
Recorded BBC Sport interview, published as a Q&A transcript, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Wynton Marsalis Trumpeter and composer; artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
I’m the most proud when I get something from cities, or people. At first I was against awards, you know. I would always say, “This is so fake. The people who vote on this stuff, they never listen to the music.” But for me it’s when I received awards or something from the city. Just to go to somebody’s house and eat. Or people come and say, “We spent our anniversary checking you out,” or “We were making love to one of your records, and we had a child!” See that kind of stuff makes me feel good. Like you get a key to the city and the people are really into it. Not just, “Oh, let’s give him the key to the city because he got some publicity.” It will be some people you knew, and you were there at their school, and you worked in the community.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York, New York, 8 January 1991 source ↗
Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexican film director; winner of Academy Awards for Birdman and The Revenant
I don’t regret having done it at all. I think everything that I went through was worth it. I am very proud. But I would not do it again.
Recorded The Talks interview, 27 January 2016 source ↗

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