If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar Assad has to go. He's going to stay. So we're out of the game.

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

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and wait for your time in office. [Donald] Trump is not a hang-back kind of guy.

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.