I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.