The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

We have enormous challenges in front of us.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.

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.