It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a hands-on kind of thing at all. I couldn't afford to go to another college. And my grandparents lived in D.C., so I was able to live with them, and that's how I was able to afford it at all.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.