Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.