He tasted failure as a junior director and decided to change tack completely.
Either way, he always spoke his truth, and, for a junior director, that was both inspiring and frightening".
The BBC's arts flagship was in its second season; I was the junior director in the production team, and, as the only one with musical training, I was assigned to look after the already legendary "Lenny".
When the play was at the Mermaid Theatre, he invited Anderson along to see it and said, "There, is that what you meant?" Anderson said no, it wasn't, but invited him to join the Royal Court as a junior director.
The Lower East Side may be looking more and more like Chelsea, but for the moment it's still a place to take risks, whether that means a junior director opening her own shop, a blue-chip artist thinking outside the white box or an anything-goes collaboration.
"When did any book I purchased ever get to Luxembourg?" a furious Margaret Hodge, chair of parliament's public accounts committee, asked the hapless junior director dispatched by Amazon to Westminster two years ago to answer MPs' questions on the group's tax affairs.
The newcomers are: Ryan Burk, a copywriter; Chris Gault, a senior copywriter; Nate Hinz, a senior designer; Emily Honigsfeld, a senior art director; Erik Kvalseth, an associate creative director; and Brit Ryan, junior art director.
That suggests choosing from one of the ten even more junior managing directors.
He become the junior academy director at Dundee United aged 23 and after a presentation at the SFA course Nuno approached him, complimenting him but challenging him too.
Now 26, he works for another London animator, Framestore, as a junior technical director – creating wind, snow and explosion effects for films including Avatar.
