I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

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

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.