Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.
A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.
I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.
The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever.
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
I felt like I had hit a ceiling in the UK. I wasn't having many opportunities to audition back home and I felt like my career was coming to a halt. So I came to the US to be a fresh face and start over.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
