signifying nothing. >> welcome to our charlry rose special edition, why shakespeare. we will hear from some of the most celebrated actors, directors and scholars working today am they'll help us better understand the complexity and the genius of william shakespeare. nearly 400 years after his death we're still left wondering how could one person write so beautifully, be so enduring and speak so eloquently to what it means to be human. shakespeare's great rival ben johnson wrote of him, he was not of an age, but for all time. laurence olivier once called him the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of god. william shakespeare was born in 1564 in the small pro vention english town of statford upon avon. he moved to london in the late 1580s and in a remarkably short period of time became perhaps the greatest playwright of all time. the names speak for themselves. hamleting king lear, othello, macbeth, romeo and juliet. these plays have been passed down through generations. they dazzle us with an appeal that transcends time and culture. tonight in our first episode wit

welcome and congratulation this very nice. >> thanks, charlry, it is great to be here. >> rose: tell me where amazon is and where it's going. >> well, you know, we've been at it for 18 years now. and the happiest thing i can tell su we're still having fun. so it is a big team of people working hard. we have an unusual business approach in some ways. we're not competitor-obsessed, we're customer obsessed. we start with the customer and work backwards. we are willing to take a long-term point of view. we don't need things to pay back in just one or two or three years. >> rose: not obsessed by quarterly earnings. >> no. and we're also willing to invent and invention does take a certain amount of willingness. you have to be willing to be misunderstood, you have to be willing to fail. but invention is really important. and that's-- so that's kind of, if i were to say what are the three big ideas about amazon, those would be the three. >> long term thinking, customer obsession and willingness to invent. >> exactly. and those things will still be true, i hope, ten years from now. >> rose: b

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and charlry, -- charlie, i want you to know that they execute that work in ten hours, they conceive they shop they drape draft they cut sew. they fit the model. they style the model it happens in ten hours am i am constant awe. >> rose: see that's exactly. i asked robert altman who was a great director. >> indeed. >> rose: and he said to me and part of the reason he was a good director he said i could never be an actor. i have such admiration for what it is they do. >> yes. >> rose: i would never want to do it. i would never think i could do it. but i -- and i amed to allly in awe of it. >> he know. >> rose: an therefore because i respect what they have to do and because it is within me i'm a better director, i'm a better -- >> i agree with altman i totally agree. i have to say also, to the being a fashion designer i'm never projecting myself into the project runway designers' work and asking what would i do. well first of all what i would do is totally irrelevant. but in this case it's moot. because i wouldn't be doing anything. >> rose: well, is there anything are you not doing that yo

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