'Remember in the end, John, you're not looking at the background, you're not watching the Pods, you're listening to the music.'

'Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.'

'If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.'

'You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the sam…