学者必须自信，既然自信，无论如何也无法被剥夺。

A leader's role is to see potential where others see obstacles.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

Cinema is not about showing everything, but about showing just enough to make the audience imagine the rest.