Transcripts For BLOOMBERG Charlie Rose 20150829

For over a year. They told us you cant leave the valley. As long as we stay here, we would be protected. [screaming] get out of there you need to get out of the water, please. The water is contaminated. Theres got to be an exclamation. Its just crazy that it still here. Ran out of gas. We can get it to work manually. It works are you thinking longterm for us . Its ok. [dog barking] i mean you no harm, man. My names caleb. Hey no, its all right. That could be anybody for all we know. Because we have faith. Whats the plan . Ive seen the way you look at each other. It you need to figure it out. Figure it out. Jealousy doesnt suit you. I love you. Charlie welcome. Ejiofor good to see you. Charlie tell me who john loomis is. Ejiofor a scientist who works in one of the bits, in the trailer there. You see him in this hazmat suit. Its one of the things hes been working on is a prototype. Hes been working on it ever since the nuclear event. It killed him. Hes trying to survive. He has his wagon and hes moving around from place to base. Place. He comes across a valley that is fertile and luscious. He cant believe it. It has been untouched because of the geographical components. And the wind patterns have allowed it to be free of nuclear fallout. They are the only two people left. Hes a very heady guy. Leading with his head, he decides hes not going to rush into a relationship with her and try to establish this kind of friendship. The last thing he wants to do is get into a bad relationship with the last woman on earth. Charlie and how has the apocalypse changed him . Ejiofor i think there is an element of ptsd. There are issues that he had before. This intense loneliness, the things that he has seen and the things that he has done is the kind of strong wife we were working with. All three of us, when these people have interpersonal relationships, they start to dramatically escalate. All of these elements of character. Charlie after the success of 12 years a slave, did you try to be careful about what you are doing or did you look for good projects . Nothing had changed other than you were betterknown . I think that is what happened. I was constantly in the search for interesting projects. There was a lot to do with, a lot to bring. Charlie did you see more . Ejiofor yes and no. More projects, but the specifics charlie not many good projects . Ejiofor the requirements that i have are complex. They are hard to explain. Charlie why are they hard to explain . Ejiofor they are slightly, in a sense, abstract. Its a feeling or a tone. Something that might appeal to me might seem a strange choice. Charlie as opposed to the agent standpoint. Ejiofor any combination. Charlie and its a feeling. Ejiofor it is a pull towards. Something you have to say in. That you are intrigued by. A color or tone. In the end, that is something that is important. Charlie i would think that is easy in 12 years a slave. Easy. Something you might want to do. What is it here . Ejiofor a number of things. I have been interested into handers and three handers. They are quite rare. But they are interesting. To separate Everything Else away and see the kind of interpersonal dramatic relationships. A very small number of people can create the same tensions and dramatic tensions. There are no archetypal characters in this. There is no real sort of bad guy in the sense. They are in between. Charlie things like jealousy and the like are as prevalent with three as it is with 6 million. Ejiofor and that was the real distinction for me. Something i found was really important in this film. The distinction between two people and three is massive. With two people, Everything Else falls apart. Its sort of like they have differences, in terms of their faith. Loomis is atheist. Anne is not. It becomes irrelevant. It has no political weight in their relationship. Charlie does he see her from the beginning as someone he falls in love with or as someone hes obligated to have a relationship with because of his commitment to the rest of the world . Ejiofor he sees that she is a beautiful girl. Its not possible for him to take away this sense of fear of moving into a relationship sort of headlong. It can have serious implications and problems if it goes wrong. Her attractiveness is irrelevant. They need to find a way to understand in the capacity of a friend before taking that into any kind of romance or any kind of other realm. Charlie is this a modernday biblical tale . Ejiofor it is like adam and eve, but for real. The actual underlying complications within this kind of construct. The beautiful countryside of new zealand. You are trying to organize a relationship. It has that kind of external pressure. It has serious ramifications. Every thought process, every word out of your mouth has to be weighed because you dont want to send the wrong signals. So there are all of these choices. They are pressured. She is much younger and he is introducing technological things back into the universe. There is something paternalistic about their relationship. For all of those reasons, he is taking it very easy. All of which turns out to be a terrible idea because hes not the last man on earth. Hes the second to last man on earth. When caleb arrives. He is an alpha male as well. It completely destroys all of these best laid plans. Charlie which makes an interesting film. Ejiofor absolutely. It becomes a question of jealousies, and how do you silently fight this kind of situation . You do it through manipulation if you can. You do it by trying to outmaneuver the other guy. You do it through every kind of means that you have in your disposal. He finds himself, equally, a minority. Which is irrelevant if it is the two of them. But racially and in terms of religion, he is minoritized which creates a system of selfconsciousness. Charlie how has he changed by the end of the film . Ejiofor all the way through the film, the distinction between who loomis believes he is and who he actually is gets increasingly wider. As he is having to justify all of these decisions and actions that lead him down a path. If you talk to him at the beginning of the film or even the beginning of the nuclear event, where he ends up is not a place you would think is conceivable for him. He is a moral human being. A man of reason. Within a certain sequence of circumstances, he is forcing himself to justify, more and more, the unethical and immoral acts. Charlie where are your stage ambitions . Ejiofor i am on stage the national theater. They are doing every man. I have a brief break. Then i come back and finish my show. Im almost at the end of it and it has been an extraordinary time. It is a 15th century morality play updated by Caroline Duffy and directed by the new artistic director of the national theater. It has been an incredible process. And i think, for me, an exceptional show. Charlie how are you growing as an actor other than you growing as a human being . Ejiofor thats an interesting question. I feel like it happens concurrently. I definitely feel like doing a play like every man, and trying to get into the moral and ethical complexities of this time, and what a morality play means for us now Environmental Concerns and our selfcenteredness as well. It is something that i feel like, by the end the play, it is something that has made me, in some ways, a better person. It is a great gift. Charlie it has influenced the humanity of you. Ejiofor thats not something i necessarily look for. But that it is something that is happening is very deeply gratifying. Making films like these, zechariah, and the plays like every man, to flesh out the nuances of it makes me a better actor. That is always going to be the goal. To keep on improving my work to the point that i am satisfied. Charlie who has had the most influence on you as a director . Ejiofor in theater . In theater, i would say that i had the extraordinary opportunity to work with michael greenwich a few times. I worked with him before doing ive always had a remarkable time working with him. For me, he has a great way of speaking to actors and of guiding a piece. Charlie do you know what that is or do you just know it happens . Ejiofor i think it starts with a great overview of the piece. And a very watchful eye. And the skill is to be able to nudge production and nudge performance very gently along a certain way which opens up the actors for the audience. That whole kind of area. He is somebody that understands that is what the audience is looking for. Every man was, for me, just over five weeks. The company was rehearsing for longer. I was making a film so i came into it. Charlie when does that come out . Ejiofor this year. November. Charlie what is the satisfaction of acting for you . Ejiofor i think there is something about it which is, to me, and artform. This is something that i wanted to get to the root of. It is always a form of self expression. I can express myself artistically. And never having to do it as myself was a great advantage. If you are painting or singing, dancing even, you are so much more exposed. Musicians are so exposed. Poets are exposed. Writers, obviously. You can kind of be concealed. I imagine it would have been writing. I have a very deep connection to literature from when i was growing up. And in some form, i would have moved into part of that. The thing about reading plays, i decided that i wanted to see what the structure and the form were meant to be shown. I went to the theater of my school, i got the bug. Charlie if you had had i thought this instruction. The more you understand the construct of the play, the more you understand what goes into it. I think, the more you appreciate it. The more you know about art, the more you appreciate the artist. It doesnt mean you cant enjoy it and you cant enjoy it on some level of spontaneity, but the more you can find, connecting with how it affects your life were finding parallels at the same time, the more you know about what goes into, and how difficult it is, does it make it good . Ejiofor that is very true. I went to see, recently, a play at the for othello. And having such an intimate knowledge of the play, a word for word knowledge, it is always great for me to see that play and see what choices people are making. To see what they are doing. How they are doing it. How it affects the rest of the play and the audience. Where theyve hit with the humor, where they lost it. Its a fascinating thing to do. Charlie we both talked about being in london and seeing Benedict Cumberbatch and hamlet. But because of the number of years ive been on the air with this program, 25 years, weve had a Remarkable Group of actors that have acted as hamlet. It has been a defining experience for them. To take those different performances. You understand a bit about the craft of acting and playwriting. If you can take a play and see it done in so many different ways, all true to the text, but at the same time, understanding the creative imagination that goes into ejiofor especially hamlet. Charlie most of all, hamlet. Ejiofor it is difficult. It is so well known. It is hard to, kind of it is surprising. I saw hamlet, and outdoor hamlet that was an amateur production in oxford. The production was actually rained off because they could not do the last fight scene. It was too slippery and too dangerous. I remember halfway through, for the first time, i caught the emotional wind of hamlet. It really shocked me. I had been familiar with it for years. Charlie how many times have you done it . Ejiofor never done it. Charlie never once . Ejiofor i have been asked to do it on different occasions. Charlie why have you said no . Ejiofor because i do not know that i fully understand hamlet in theater, is my admission. And because of that, i never really found myself totally capable of being inside the play. Charlie what is it you not understand . Ejiofor their dynamic. Their relationship. Charlie unless you understand that, you dont think you could. Ejiofor it has made it hard for me to understand the dynamics. Her suicide, the relationship. How he treats her. I have read extensively about it. I have never been able to sit with it the way i have been able to sit with other charlie there are people here that really dont do shakespeare that are very good actors. Bill nye. He has no interest in shakespeare. I cant imagine you wont do hamlet. You can have a life without it, obviously. Im not saying you have to do it to be happy or fulfilled. But you are so good ejiofor i would love to find a way of really connecting. I havent yet. But the penny might well drop. I have read it through and have been really happy. And reaching a certain point. What is this . Ejiofor lets take charlie lets take the film role. Z for zachariah. Did you have to understand him . Did you have to see and understand the relationship he had . Ejiofor i think you have to understand and imagine yourself there. There is a lot of work to do once that happens. There are a lot of dynamics and nuances to flesh out. But of all the basic dynamics in place, if i get it, i can get on the train, at least. Charlie what is the worst decision you have ever made . Ejiofor the worst career decision i have made. Charlie either by omission or commission. Ejiofor i suppose, in the end, there are a number of different pathways. Charlie and you cant really tell if you took this you might not have seen this. Ejiofor i mean, the clearest indication of that was, for me, a decision i dont think was a bad decision but it did not seem like a decision that would likely have a good end. That was after i did amistad. I was young. I decided not to stay in hollywood. I decided to go back to london and the theater career. At that point, i assumed i would be doing theater. I didnt envision possibly having a film career. Even though i had just worked with spielberg [laughter] it struck me that was a mistake. I started to try to do films and do films in los angeles. I dont know. I think my decision to go back to london also influenced my and to go back to the theater is why i met bill nighy, and i met others and did things. There is no part of it that is cut and dry. There are so many different little avenues. I could drive myself mad. Charlie its been great having you here. Ejiofor its been a pleasure. Charlie the movie premieres in theaters on friday, august 28 and v. O. D. Thank you for being here. Charlie al pacino is here and is an oscar, tony, and Emmy Awardwinning actor. It was once said of him, some actors play characters. Al pacino becomes them. Heres a look at some of them. You stole my wife. I love you. I was going to go out and score for you. The reality is, we just i dont care if i am in trouble or who gets it anymore. If we have to go to outside agencies where are we going to go . Where am i going to go . I know it was you, fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart. Get back there, man. He wants to kill me so bad, he can taste it. Attica attica you want to play rough . Ok. Say hello to my little friend you want to learn the first rule you would know if you ever spent a day in your life. Never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. There is a time i have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there is nothing like the site of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. If its between you and some poor bastard whose wife you are going to turn into a widow, rather, you are going down. This guy is the top scientist in the top Tobacco Company in the country. He is a corporate officer. This guy is the ultimate insider. Hes got something to say, i want him on 60 minutes. Charlie what do you think about this career in acting that you have had and continue to have . Pacino it baffles me. You know you spend your life just moving on. Its one of the perks but also one of the issues you have when youre with a group of people and you are in a company and you know, we all sort of feel that way, actors are transient. Charlie somebody once said all actors are gypsies. Pacino they are. They have that in their spirit. When i look at things ive done before, there is a merciful distance you have and you look at it and say, its all part of if you want to call it development. I remember there was a special evening and they showed old movies they did. He got up on stage an said, wow, how am i still Walking Around . How did this happen . I remember once they did one for me. I went up there an thought, theres no rehab in this. Wheres the time i was in rehab. I never was in rehab. Charlie the question posed, in john lennons letter, stay true to yourself. You stay true to yourself, for the most part, havent you . Pacino i guess so. Here and there. Ive veered off. I dont make those kind of, i dont think of myself as that at all. That im being true to myself. I can feel when im not. I can feel when ive gone off the track. Charlie in your personal life or the performance . Pacino both. More in performance than personal life, personal life is a little too random for me. Im playing characters who lived these lives all over the world and stuff, gone to the accessibility of things in our life and our world. Travel. Charlie people say you shouldnt read certain tolstoy until youre 30. You dont fully understand it. Pacino they say you shouldnt do hamlet until youre at least 40 but you have to do it earlier because you wont do it if you wait until 40. Youll learn too much and know its impossible. The best thing is to get in there i love when young actors do it. I didnt do it. I never felt i was right for hamlet. I loved the play. Probably my favorite play of all the shakespeare and i never did it. I did scenes from it. I just didnt feel i could exist in that play in a way. I just thought other people have, when i get older ill understand it more. The question of understanding it as an audience and understanding it as an artist. And thats the separation. Charlie it was hamlet and somebody having you do a reading. Al it was strasburg. I was afraid to do anything. I was very young. I got to the Actors Studio a young age. I would stand around and watch them and i would go home. Throughout my life, i have committed to memory certain monologues that i like. Charlie you were almost a teenager . Al early 20s. I thought, gee, i have these great monologues in me. A great Eugene Oneill monologue. And i had the wonderful what a peasant slave am i. I had them committed to my mind. I went for the first time. I was sitting there for six months. Finally, i got up the nerve to sign up. Lee strasburg lifts the paper and he was able to pronounce my name. Al pacino. Most people said pakeeny. I grew up with that stuff. He said, al pacino . Whats this . Hamlet, and the iceman cometh. He said ok, you know, we take all kinds in here. [laughter] i got up there and i did a ferocious peasant. And i went wild with the eugene oneil and i was really giving it the old gung ho. Stepping on the gas and stuff. It wasnt that good. It was over and he was looking at me and the audience got kind of teary about it. It had a lot of commitment and energy. I was young. He said, heres what i would like you to do. Immediately, this was the genius with him. He said, i want you to do i want you to do hamlet as hickey from teh iceman cometh and hickey as hamlet. I immediately went into it. He was very happy about that. I did not pause. I just switched it. Charlie the character of hamlet and the text of hickey. Al yes. And the text of hamlet and charlie and hickey as the presence he had. Al i learned more that day than i had in my entire life. Charlie and how have you managed to be a star to this day not playing character roles as much as you are playing stars . You are the center of these two films. Pacino again, i am going by what i am feeling. Charlie box office . Pacino you know, some movies ive made that arent characterdriven, different characters i play, i dont know. I find it its always a mystery to me, it really is. A mystery that im here talking to you and that im still doing his thing. I started early, too, as an actor. I was in a play in the new york, in a play called the indian wants the bronx, and it was this unaway who saw me in play and told the great producer marty bergman. That play, there was something in that play. It hits real hard. It is a beautiful play. John lasalle was in it, too. And i had been acting maybe 10 years before that. I was quite young, my id20s. It just started to sail along. I did feel, as i talked about it, that i went from being an explorer in my work, experimenting and trying to learn more about the classics and myself in connection to it and doing things, i got a lot of joy out of that. I was in a place called the actors gallery in soho, which nobody could even find in those days. But as i said, continuing in the village. And then to finally be lauded in a way and suddenly, everything upped the stakes. And the star thing came in. And the name above the title game in. And somehow i was sort of trying to preserve something i thought i understood earlier on because i then found myself in another world which i liked. I thought it was a good thing. I still think it was a good thing. It was a lucky thing. Things happen that way sometimes. Something a, maybe happened that was somewhat new. A new kind of person that wasnt comparable to other things people are seeing came out in the 1960s, came out of this time in america. Where people like me were, you know, being given an opportunity, whatever. Dont know. It was a combination of things. I remember one time, i did a scene one time, charlie, we had this scene in the studio. I will never forget this because i saw him on his deathbed, and i said, charlie, remember the time when they were doing this big thing and i was one of the seams in the school and every teacher brought their student that they wanted to show how they were doing there. I went into this thing and i did this scene. I said, remember when i came to see you, charlie, grabbed me and said, good stuff. Good stuff. And the teacher got up. And went crazy against me. They thought it was the worst. It was like, who do you think you are . Luther adler . You come up here and do this. What is this about . I told charlie in the hospital, in the hospital, do you remember that time . He said, yeah. What was that . Why did he get so upset . He said, he saw a new era. I thought that, in some way, i think its very dramatic to hear that when charlie says, i dont know if it true. But i do know it was interesting because that was happening. It happens today something comes along and you get used to it. In the old days, actors have to pronounce things a certain way. Be a certain height so theyd be seen in the audience. I dont mean to compare myself to people like edmund keane but i was always reading books about actors. About edwin booth. Id read about it. And edmund king came keane came at a time when he came from a whole other climate, a whole other world. When he went on the stage, it was new. There is something about the roles i played in this situation and the times we are in and i got lucky. And its been this thing all my ife. I have to say, i know youve heard it a lot, everybody says it, but its true. Its luck. I remember saying once to somebody, were all together, were actor, im no better than anybody else in that way. Great n people do such stuff. At the same time, a guy said, youre doing so well. Why you . Why not me . He said, ive always wanted this. I want this stuff. That you have. I says, yeah. You want it, i think i had to have it. Charlie wow. Had to have it. Pacino thats an interesting distinction, you know. Im just know, mouthing now. Just think that charlie you had to have it. Pacino i never thought it would turn into this naturally. But i knew it was my time. That i would be seen in some way. That enough had happened and this this part in the play, you know, i went up to boston and i did two or three plays, repertory, i went to do a part in a play. There was no way. They all wanted me for this. They said youll be great for this. I thought maybe i will be. But i got up and did it and it was not good at all. As a matter of fact, i remember that i was in the dressing room and somebody came down and i heard it on the speaker, my entrance was coming up, and this guy in the dressing room was excited by this review he was reading of the play we were doing. I said whats that. He tried to cover it. I thought why is he covering it . I said can i see that, john . Yeah, ok, here. He pushed it over to me. I looked at it and i saw this great review. This person, that person. Ith one exception. It was al pacino in the role of so and so was terrible. As i was reading it, my cue came on the speaker so i had to go on stage. I had to go on after reading that about the play he was criticizing me in. But i laughed. I think at a certain time the ability to look at Something Like that and laugh, it might have helped me a little bit. I dont know. It hurt. Another part that i did not want to do i was ok in. It was always the question of, what do we do . You walk along the street, you see a certain tree. You either take a picture or you get the canvas out or you painted. You never know what is going to happen when you read a script. And with actors, if you dont try it, you are not going to now. What happens is if you start to censor yourself, i think when you start to censor yourself a gets a little because we dont know. Charlie thank you for coming. A great pleasure. Charlie helen mirren is here and she is an Academy Awardwinning actor. In 2003 she became a dame of the british empire. She stars on broadway as the queen. The play is called the audience. The play covers private conversations that Queen Elizabeth has had with her Prime Ministers over the last 60 years. The Associated Press calls it a touching portrait of power and majesty. You never thought youd be Prime Minister, did you . Goodness, no. No, no. There is a photograph of me taken outside downing street. Some people interpret it as such. There was never any scheme or plan. The children where i grew up never had boots nor shoes to their feet. They wore clubs because those lasted longer. As children we never had any dreams or thoughts beyond survival. Died y difed typhoid of typhoid at age eight. Mrs. Wilson must be proud. No, shes furious. She much preferred our life in xford as a young dons wife. Mirren my husband feels the same way about this place. We all do, actually. No. Mirren yes. No. Mirren yes. Water . Charlie when peter morgan calls you peter, who you know. Mirren he didnt call me. He emailed me. He said, ive written a play and i would like you to look at it. Its about the queen. I emailed back a twoword email, you bastard. I knew he knew. I knew that he knew, in the end, i would have to do it. I was so cross. Charlie you said no, and then you said yes. Didnt you, you basically saw them in the room testimony the writer and director. Mirren i saw the writer, the director. I saw stephen doldry, one of the greatest directors in european theater. I saw bob crowley. One of the top designers and european theater. I saw robert foxe. I looked at the three of them, and i thought dont be ridiculous. You will never get to do this again. Charlie is it easy or more difficult to play and you knew peter from your previous. Sit easier to play her on film or on stage or does it matter . Mirren it does matter. Doing the movie, the film was the first time id done it, that anybody had done it on that scale. So you know, the implications of it were sort of terrifying, how it might be received and what slack we might received. Now we know those things are accepted and we know about it. Maybe, in a way, in the film, it is a very different animal. On a stage, i go backwards and forwards in age, and thats tough. Thats a difficult challenge. But the essence of the queen may be harder on film. Because its closeup and youve got to have that kind of working. Charlie lets talk about what the play is about. Every tuesday is it tuesday . Mirren every tuesday the queen meets with the Prime Minister for 20 minutes, no longer. Just to know what is going on politically. But neither the queen nor the Prime Ministers ever talk about what they talked about. And there is no one else in the room. And it is not dugged not bugged. Charlie we hope. Mirren yes. It is completely and utterly private and is one of the few places that either of them can feel utterly secure in the fact that whatever they say in this space, it will go in fourth. Go further. Charlie so peter had to imagine. Mirren peter imagines everything. But the only thing the Prime Ministers have said is that they felt they could say things to the queen that they could not say to anyone else because she is in a position of knowledge. And at the same time, shes got to keep her mouth shut. So they felt free with her. For some of them it became a kind of a shrink. Charlie you see her going from churchill to cameron. Churchill, she was 26. And churchill a friend of the royal family. Mirren absolutely. Obviously. And through the war and all the rest of it. Must have been very, very present. Charlie did she counsel him at all . Mirren absolutely. Charlie her attitude had to be a certain sense of awe but she was the queen. Mirren yes. She was the queen. Yes, of course. That early scene where she is young and does not know what shes doing. He is training her up, if you like. I love that scene. Charlie when you look at the career you have had, would you have had it any different . Would you like more early . Mirren yes. Id love to have done more movies earlier. I unfortunately hit, if you ale really want to talk about me, charlie. Charlie i do. Very much so. Mirren do you . Charlie yes. Mirren anyway, when i was in my, sort of golden era, if you like, between 27 and 37, a great era in anyones life, male or female. Youre at the top of your game. Youre getting to be wiser. It was a very bad time for british film. Terrible time. Confessions of a window cleaner. Ust awful. It wasnt until i came to america i mean prime suspect was great. Charlie Something Like 14 Million Viewers in london prime suspect. Mirren i had done a lot of very good tv at that point. Charlie you would like to have more film roles early . You could be, essentially, notwithstanding however old you are you work all the time. Mirren yes, i do. Charlie you are in the prime of your career. Youre on broadway, in a film. Mirren its been great for quite a long time. I have always gone between tv and film and theater. Charlie you can be prime for a long time. But it is good as it has been. Mirren absolutely. Definitely. To be starring on broadway is fabulous. So great. Charlie whats good about it . Mirren that thing about seeing your name in lights. Its pathetic. But its great. And all the people. Amazing. My sister and i charlie even now, you get excited about things like that . Mirren definitely. Its fantastic. Charlie did you say your greatest guru was Francis Bacon . Mirren yes. Artistically. Yes. Charlie how did he influence you . Mirren he was a great painter. Obviously. There is a book called interviews with Francis Bacon. He put forth the concept which at that time i just hadnt thought of, of the tension between inspiration and technique. And the way accident is very important in art. But you can only achieve accident in a full way after you have fully mastered technique. Its true. Children under the age of seven, every single one of them is a genius painter because it is totally instinctive. But you cant be painting as a 7yearold when youre 14. So you have to move forward. And then you go through this painful process of learning technique. When youve lost all your instinct, youve lost all your inspiration. Youre just learning how to draw a foot. You know. And then you get through that. And you can allow accident to happen. It you are open to accident. You have all the technique. You have all that so deep within you, you dont even have to think about it. It has to become thoughtless, the technique. And then you can allow inspiration to come back. Charlie thank you for coming. Mirren thank you, charlie. Thank you very much, as usual. Brilliant. Shes been wowing the arled world with her ever so slightly skew view of life in india. Her paintings, photographs hallenge cultural and social taboos. Its leek a kitchen, lots of pots cooking. The way i approach my work is very fluid. I stop some projects because ept to play with the material. Is of time my work ideabased. The idea influences how i begin the project. What would you say your work is about . Lots of things. Lots and lots of things. Emily it has changed the way we watch video, redefined going viral, challenged governments, and even launched the career of justin bieber. Today, youtube, now owned by google, has more than 1 billion users, uploading 300 hours of video every minute. It all started a decade ago with a trip to the zoo. And one of the founders says he is not quite done changing the way we are entertained. Joining me today on studio 1. 0, youtube cofounder and former ceo, chad hurley. Chad, thank you so much for being here. It is so great to have you. Chad thanks for having me