I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

It was assumed that you can't touch evangelical Christians. "Oh, they're the Republican Right. Stay away from those people. Don't even try to talk to them." Well, what's interesting is that there were evangelical Christians who were voting for Kerry. There were right-to-lifers who were voting for Kerry. And it's interesting to listen to the reasons why. To ignore that segment of the electorate is moronic. Particularly if you don't know who those people are, or what their concerns are.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.