If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

Nigel Farage, even if you don`t follow British politics, he`s a British politician but you may recognize him from his frequent visits to the United States, for example, his time at Trump Tower. You may recognize him from his time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.