This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.