I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.