I THINK that we have to be CONSTANTLY asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And SOMETIMES we don't calculate it correctly; we EITHER overstate it or understate it.
Read MoreIf you make a WRONG MOVE with explosives, it COULD be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to CLEAR the AREA completely and get picked up by the small boats.
Read MoreIn the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between US and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of GOODS and people across the globe, we NEED to build security by building BRIDGES instead of building walls.
Read MoreA franchise is dictated on the success of doing one FILM right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of SOMETHING else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can FIND a character that people REALLY do like, then you're very LUCKY.
Read MoreI remember going through school and doing ART, which was the only thing that I actually FOUND fulfilling, and I couldn't really FIGURE out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the IMAGES that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt CORRECTLY.
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