Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction to globalization and the meritocracy. And a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. We've had Brexit. We have Le Pen rising in France. We've just got a lot of these types all around the world. And the people who are suffering from globalization and the meritocracy are saying, "No more. You know, we get a voice too."

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal.

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.