The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Getting into graduate school was pure luck.
As long as I am getting acceptance, I would rather take one step at a time and let the audience also accept me.
The admissions standards are so low that almost anybody who has a credit card that isn’t maxed out can get into the programs.
Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective.
Every year, deans of admissions are pushed: 'Did you increase the number of applicants? Did you decrease the acceptance rate?' And it's an institutional priority for colleges and universities to look for students that are going to have a philanthropic family that could give to that school.
