People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view - which is often very focused on the creative task itself - and the resource-allocation process. The impresario has to make certain the funds and people required to get that task completed are available.
If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.