The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.

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

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.

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

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