Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.