I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.