Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

In Martin Sheen, you have a president who is a regular guy, who can sit down with you and have a drink, ... I think the show will carry some of the influence of 'The West Wing,' or try to rebut it — insisting the female can make it.