You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but those buttons aren't connected to anything. And so nothing is happening.

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

Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.