We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

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.

Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.

Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

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.