[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.