In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its most critical arenas - which is the screenplay.

I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure.

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?

It's so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn't show up on film.

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Most of the neighbours didn't like our parents, and they particularly gave Dad a very wide berth. We kids didn't have that luxury.

My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.

I worry that there are financial ties between the Trumps and the Saudi royal family.