Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.