I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.