As Paul Stekler delivers his final class, the former head of UT-Austin’s Department of Radio-Television-Film gives a commencement speech looking back on a career without a plan.
with Dustin Hoffman."Well, I have to tell you," she told the luncheon audience,"it wasn't hard at all when I got out in the real world. It's been really easy. Much easier than school ever was."
For the rest us, perhaps not so much. But then, maybe some uncertainty, and the surprises that come with it, are not always a bad thing. Maybe a life story with happy surprises would be more relevant here.I grew up in a very traditional Jewish suburban family in northern New Jersey.
I wish I could tell you that any of this happened because I had a plan. I didn’t. I just was attracted to things that were, well, attractive to me at the time., was almost all luck. I was in Boston for what I thought was a meeting at WGBH, the PBS flagship station, to have them take a film of mine for national broadcast. The meeting, out in their lobby, lasted just long enough for them to say,"No, thanks.
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