I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

I write from my stomach.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?