Your new movie, The Ides of March, is pretty dark. Your character, a presidential candidate, makes a mistake. Do people allow candidates failings if they don't influence who they are as politicians?
I really do think it almost always comes down to not just the stupid act istelf but the covering up of that stupid act. I truly believe if Nixon had taken the tapes and burned them on his front lawn and said, „Screw you. These belong to me”, Watergate would have been very different.
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Do you follow Twitter?
No, because I drink in the evening and I don't want anything that I write at midnight to end my career - „You can kiss my ass”, all spelled wrong.
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