Pain now is better than pain deferred.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.

I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into politics? And she actually does have a story there to tell about children. And so drawing that animating passion will do good.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.