I enjoy directing something I've never seen. If I see it, it tends to influence my directing, and I end up second-guessing myself.

There are a few times where it looks like the actors are about to smile.

I'd seen a lot of his type of theater — and it's my type of theater — so I was pretty sure I was going to do it. Nick wanted to see what someone else would do with his script and if his writing could stand on its own.

Atkinson insists. ''I would never have taken this job if I didn't think it was completely free of advertisers' influence.

We don't know enough to know whether any of that influence in any way stopped the administration or agencies of our federal government from protecting average shareholders who lost their life savings when Enron collapsed, ... That's the question we're going to ask.

It's going to increase his visibility, it's going to increase his influence.