Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

My day job is making TV shows.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.