Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism.

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.