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Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Journalism is not writing.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'