Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever it takes to push the story back, including those false charges that Obama had his wires tapped.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

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

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.