But the wunderkind, who runs the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London, was anything but blasé last night about the success of his dark satire on suburbia.
Even when Yasiel Puig is wrong he makes things right almost instantaneously – such is the charmed life of the Cuban wunderkind who is blowing the minds of baseball fans daily.
He had the two hits there by 1989 and was becoming known as something of a wunderkind.
Perhaps only Jenkins, Labour's wunderkind organiser, knows with any certainty what his future holds come 8 May: "I'll find another job.
Click here to view clip I don't need to say much about South African wunderkind Neill Blomkamp's ET-in-the-slums-of-Joburg roller coaster, except that it was the best African sci-fi film since Souleymane Cissé's masterpiece Yeelen/Brightness, made more than 20 years earlier.
Insiders say the wheels first began to come off when the former Arsenal striker and wunderkind Lianne Sanderson retired from international duty at the age of 22, blaming irreconcilable differences with Powell: "As long as Hope Powell is in charge I don't see myself going back and I don't think she would want me there," she said at the time.
He isn't Hillary Clinton, gritting painfully through every interaction with a voter or a reporter, but nor is he some sort of retail wunderkind like Bill Clinton who feeds off of human interaction.
"I never did what they wanted me to do," added the floppy-haired former wunderkind, now 41, who was jokingly introduced by his press officer as "Liszt reborn".
On the one hand we have Sterling the wunderkind, who made his England debut at 17 and won Europe's Golden Boy 2014.
In general, the vice-presidential choice affects the outcome only insofar as it gives voters useful information about the chooser.That is why Paul Ryan, the Republicans' budget wunderkind in the House of Representatives, may be a step too far to the wild side for the cautious Mr Romney.
NATE SILVER, the stats wunderkind who joined the staff of the New York Times last year, now writes a column for the Times magazine about the "middle ground" between "benevolent" and "evil" uses of statistics.
