White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.