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I feel really fortunate that people keep hiring me. People think I have talent.
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.
It goes without saying that when it came to musical talent, George was in a completely different league to me - as he was to most people!
In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.
People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.
The assumption is simply that I hit on all the things I've hit on so far by accident, that my talent is just this raw thing that pours out of me, and then white people feel like they have to come in and contain it, refine it, and bring it to the place where it can been released.