I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.