I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.