I Don't Watch A Lot Of Films.

When You're Making A Film You Start Living With It, And I Find Myself Sitting Down And Figuring Out A Sound Or Melody That Would Go With A Film, Or A Particular Period. It's Not Brain Surgery, You Just Kind Of Feel It Along.

Everybody Has Certain Things They Wish They Hadn't Done In Life. They Wish They Hadn't Kicked Their Dog When They Were Ten Or Something. There Are Many Things You Can Go Back And Have Regrets About. I Don't Like Doing That. But By The Same Token I Do Agree That When You Get To A Certain Stage In Life, You Change. And You Should Change.

I'm Thinking, That's Barack Obama. He Doesn't Go To Work. He Doesn't Go Down To Congress And Make A Deal. What The Hell's He Doing Sitting In The White House? If I Were In That Job, I'd Get Down There And Make A Deal. Sure, Congress Are Lazy Bastards, But So What? You're The Top Guy. You're The President Of The Company. It's Your Responsibility To Make Sure Everybody Does Well. It's The Same With Every Company In This Country, Whether It's A Two-man Company Or A Two-hundred-man Company... . And That's The Pussy Generation - Nobody Wants To Work.

If You Can Make A Good Picture That Actually Has Some Substance, That's Doubly Good Nowadays 'cause Most Everybody Else Is Trying To Address How Many Cgi Plates We're Gonna Do, What Little Being Is Gonna Come In From Another Asteroid.

I Have Great Respect For The Fbi, And I Know That There Have Been Some Rumors Lately That The Fbi Was Disenchanted Because Of What We Were Doing In Story, Or Doing A Certain Take: That's Not True. Actually The Fbi Was Tremendously Enthusiastic About Us Doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] Film.