Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

Dalton Trumbo was obsessed with justice.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.