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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
I'm a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.
Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you're branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you're branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise.