Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Film has changed the way we look at the past.

That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else.

When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.