I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

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.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

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.

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.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.