I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.
Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.
I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.
The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever.
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
I felt like I had hit a ceiling in the UK. I wasn't having many opportunities to audition back home and I felt like my career was coming to a halt. So I came to the US to be a fresh face and start over.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
