There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

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