but my parents were so brilliant at what they did

that unless you aspired to that level, don't even try it.

-And I can't sing. -You still play a little bit?

If I have my piano and I sit down, if I'm by myself I'll play around.

But I loved... I was a dancer, I love to dance,

and I had great teachers.

That's the way I could sort of express music.

I wasn't... I'm too afraid to sing. To me it's too soul-baring.

The way my mother did it was the most beautiful sound

-and expression I've ever heard. -I'm connecting the dots.

I get this now, so now it makes sense to me.

Oh, good. Explain it to me, please.

It's not that.

Now I'm getting in my own mind, I'm getting now

I see the dots connecting for why, then, it was so important to you

to help rebuild this school and to get uniforms for the band.

-I get that it now. -The band, the scholarships,

the books, the joy. Yes, you have to build up the structure of the school.

Yes, you have to give them the reading, writing, and 'rithmatic.

You have to give the safety and the food and the safe environment.

But if you don't have the music, if you don't have the sports,

if you don't have the art and the fun and the joy

each individual is unique and has their own path in life.

I'm not going to tell someone that

it's what you're going to learn in a math book.

This school, every day, blows me away.

What these young men and women do with the opportunities

and the hardships that they were given.

They've taken both and created magic,

and they're going off to run our country.

I sat there at their first graduation after Katrina

and I looked at my husband and I said,

"Guess what? Our world leaders are right here.

That girl's going to be taking care of me in this way,

that young man is going to be something

that requires him to speak and inspire,

and there's our technological genius."

The joy and the love and the desire to make the world a better place

and take what you're given and create lemonade,

sweet, sweet lemonade, is all under that roof.

Every day that we're there I'm so proud.

I'm like the proud mama of these beautiful kids

that are going to go off and save my life.

Do you think we, as a country, appreciate the arts?

I want to be plural.

Do you think we appreciate the arts as we should?

No. Not until they make you $200 million at the box office.

People forget that all the artists that create the film

that winds up making that money, our 350 artists,

of designers, painters, cinematographers, musicians,

directors, dancers, choreographers, that all has to start someplace.

It's all music. The choreography of a film is music,

the choreography of your show is a rhythm, is music.

If you take the arts out of the school you're killing,

I think, the soul of a creature.

Everyone has music. Everyone has art in their soul.

It's just the easy thing to eliminate when you look at cutting corners,

because you think it's all..

I just wish you hadn't told these guys they're artists.

They are. Because I'm looking him.

I'm looking at the lighting guy going,

"Don't light her down, she looks terrible."

They don't listen to me as it is

now you're telling them they're artists.

How I'm going to deal with that, I don't know.

That's why they don't listen, because they are artists.

Yeah.

Back to your childhood again one more time.

-Oh, please. -No, I'm curious.

You're trying to make me cry.

No, no, no, not at all. Don't mess up your makeup.

I'm joking. I'm not going to.

What was the takeaway for you as a child,

getting a chance to travel internationally so young.

When you're a kid and you do it that young

in the way that we did it, you don't know any differently.

So we knew that you'd get on a plane and you'd go to a different country

and you meet new friends and you figure out a language

and you learn that language, or you figure out the culture

and you immerse yourself into that culture.

It's not... like many Americans, we're known for traveling abroad

and then expecting everyone to speak English.

I was raised you travel into that world and you learn about the...

you become part of that world. I think it just makes you unafraid.

I think the reason we have a lot of people in this country scared

is because we don't have the luxury of Italy being eight hours away

or a Middle Eastern country being 10 hours away,

and understanding the human factor of a country

rather than all we get from the media,

which are bits and pieces.

So I don't know any differently. I know I speak German,

I know my mother was/is still amazing and the pioneer

and go out and do what you want to do as a woman,

love who you want to love, no matter what color you come home with.

I don't care as long as they're good to you.

Be good at what you're going to do because you've worked hard at it.

Here's the exit question. This may be unfair,

but let me ask anyway.

I'm just making an assumption here. I would assume, Sandra,

when you have been blessed with the kind of year

you were blessed with last year that you'd learn something about yourself.

There's a personal takeaway from what you were able to accomplish,

to pull off, last year.

If so, can you tell me what you've learned about yourself,

what you take away personally from the last year?

I've learned that I have a really hard time and will always have a hard time

with compliments and good things happening,

because any time something good happens

I assume the worst is going to come,

so it's almost like as good as the year started off as,

the better it got, that cloud of doom came over me and I go,

"Now things are going to get bad for me."

I feel like karma will always kick me in the...

and I don't take it for granted, I don't assume it's going to happen,

I don't... almost want it to happen sometimes,

because I don't know why it's happening.

So you try to sort of go home, shut off the TV,

shut off that world, and make home the real place.

Then when you come out here to do these sorts of things

you kind of try just to have a thankful attitude, but know,

again, like I said earlier, it's not anything I did.

Three hundred fifty people did it with me.

Well, I'm going to revel in this for you,

even if you can't enjoy it yourself.

Are you going to do this, like you did - hey, hey, hey.

Exactly. Sandra Bullock, what a year, what a year,

and this Sunday nominated for two Golden Globes. Good luck on that.

Thank you, but Meryl's going to win and I'm going to take her down.

When she walks up there

you're going to see my heel come off and I'm going to be like...

By the way, speaking of heels, that's a nice heel.

That is a very nice shoe.

This heel is going to take Meryl Streep,

because she's going to feel no pain

when she hits the ground after I fling that at her.

The loving Sandra Bullock.

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Thanks to @gabisassioto for the english script of the interview.