It makes for a fun year. It makes it fun because you spend a lot of time trying to get things done that you want, that you believe in, but they're hard to get done, and it's tricky, and usually you don't get the toys to play with, you know what I mean? You only get them for a very short period of time, as you and I both know. So, if you get lucky enough to have them work, then you feel you caught a break along the way. I feel like I caught a break. |
It takes me a while to get in, you also want to make sure the things you get in to are the right ones. |
It worries us, so we all wanted to show up, ... One of the reasons we're here is not to be defensive or defend this because it's operating perfectly well, we just wanted to make sure what we're doing. And I'm here to help bring focus to it. |
It's early, I haven't had a drink yet. |
It's going to be an adventure, |
It's not black and white. It's complex. |
It's not that your back hurts, ... You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done. |
Italy had one of the biggest corporate scandals of all time, America had the biggest corporate scandal of all time. So I think the idea of talking about and pointing a finger at corporate scandals is always going to be fair game in terms of subject matter. |
My father told me from the get-go to treat [the movie's story] like a journalist. And he was absolutely right. We wanted to do with this material pretty much what Murrow and Friendly did with their McCarthy broadcast. We wanted to just put the material out there and to be as tight and contained as we could so that the story itself was the star. |
My father was a television anchorman and Murrow was one of his heroes. And I have always had a fascination with that moment in history because it was one of two times that broadcast journalism had an immediate effect. The other time was when Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam, |
My goal isn't to go out and attack an administration, my goal is to raise a debate. |
No. No, the judge sits first, then we sit. |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
O'Reilly actually said some nice things about the movie, |
Ocean's Twelve. |