If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents.

I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.