There is a virtue in shamelessness.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

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 And we have withdrawn from the game.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.

The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

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.