You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

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