I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things.

We're picking on people we can beat.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

America can't beat anyone anymore.