I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

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.