That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people

No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.

Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.