I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very interested in the big question 'ho….

It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States..

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, so….

People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the convers….

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous..

Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it..

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else..

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, b….

When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what political bia….

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civil….

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way..

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one..

[Lyndon Baines Johnson ] technique in negotiation would be that he'd lean into you and take away your personal space, it didn't matter your party aff….

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I al….

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find th….

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popu….

To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that..

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that firs….