Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

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.

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

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