I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

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

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.