When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would hope, and, if I didn't, what can I do tomorrow to be a little better, I do think we can improve. We get better at life as we get older.