People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.