It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

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.

Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.