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.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems to be essential for any organization. And it should be essential if this were a normal administration, rather than a fiefdom, where everybody simply tries to give Donald Trump a good headline every day.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.