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.

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.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

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.

You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts of the German war machine per Winston Churchill, who said that they won the war. From the beginning, we were hostile to the guys who had saved how many American lives by their repulsion of the Nazis? I think the Americans lost 400,000 in the whole war. And the Americans knew it at the time. They gave Joseph Stalin credit. He was the man of the year, cover of Life magazine in 1943; he was a hero.