Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

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

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.