Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
It was accountability that Nixon feared.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
World War II vets in general didn't talk about their experiences. They believed there was something better and that they were going to prove to America what they could be and show America what it could be by being the change that they wanted. Like that Ghandi phrase "be the change that you want to see" but I think that it was also just a different culture. People didn't want to complain, whereas today if you go to the Starbucks and they mess up your order you might tweet about it. You know it's a different kind of culture.
The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.