The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.