The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.