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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.

There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking.