Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.
In the case of my book I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy he betrays his teacher the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience etc.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately because actors are in the public eye whether we want it or not sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be not to impart his own opinions but to kindle minds.
Nearly everyone I met worked with or read about was my teacher one way or another.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me not because of somebody else.
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.