I’m going to stop — I just want to say how proud I am and how excited I am because as I get older and as I make more work and step back from the work and step back from the work of my friends and my associates whose skills are still expanding and still growing, I see that we are a force that will actually, from a distance, be seen as ‘defining’ in some way. I believe there will be people who look back, perhaps at this night and say, ‘Look who was there — ‘ and run off the names and it will be clear that those names together did not represent an island — fuck an island — they were a huge force, they were a continent called the imagination…”