It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics. I'd done All the President's Men, and the history of how that came about is a story unto itself. It began with The Candidate. No one knows about that connection. I was on a train, and I was promoting The Candidate going from Jacksonville, Florida, down to Miami to duplicate what candidates in 1972 did.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.