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What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.