Originally asked
The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews
Near-verbatim recurring Academy prompt about judgment under pressure.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Catherine Cohen, Interview Magazine, 10 July 2019 source ↗
That is a lesson I try to take to real life. What is the real problem? Don’t just dive in and start trying to go with your first instinct. Step back and say, ‘What am I really trying to accomplish here?’
I never listened to any noise around me. I listened only to my gut feeling and did what I should have
Intuition? They say intuition is sort of feeling and intellect going at the same time. It’s a knowingness. As I always say, it’s knowing when something isn’t quite correct and then knowing a way to make it correct. And intuition is, I always say, the number one tool for the artist, I think the number one tool for people in business, perhaps the number one tool for human beings. Knowing how to do something, how to make it feel correct for you.
The value of a coin toss is not seeing whether it lands on heads or tails. It’s noticing whether you are disappointed in the result or what you’re wishing for when it’s flipping
A couple of summers ago, walking through a forest illuminated by fireflies, with my man and our dogs.
Plug it in, switch it on and read the bloody label.
It’s killing the planet. It’s killing you. It’s killing all of us. Walk away.
I think acting your age is allowing other people to make decisions for you about how you should behave and what is age-appropriate. I encourage people to live and not be tied down with other people's expectations of what you should be doing. If you want to do something, go and do it. We overly worship the altar of youth. It's not good for our mental health. As a culture, we need to get better at seeing the beauty in aging and the beauty in things that are not young.
No, I would never say that. I would never say that I do something just in order to put a fresh spin on it or do something different with it. I am drawn to certain plays because I think there’s something about them in the story that I want to tell, or that I think is relevant—something that strikes me. With Macbeth, I’m not doing this because I want to do a crazy interpretation or production.
Biggest lesson; Treat people respectfully. There's a sort of vogue, and there has been for decades now, that the director is god and the director is all knowing.
François Ozon, David Lynch, Geoffrey Rush, A.J. Jacobs, Cheryl Strayed, Steve Jobs
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