New Yorker editor David Remnick: “It’s this kind of willingness to go at it and at it and at it and fill your bucket with apples in one form or another. It’s not like Barbara Walters and you get the big get and there’s, you know, a star, Angelina Jolie. That’s not anything that we’re talking about. It’s missing three flights and then getting the miner character that you must have, that nobody in the world cares about, but you. There’s a lot of kind of sheer labor to it. But without that stuff-gathering, without that harvesting, without that kind of dumb stubbornness? Do something else.”
