I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.