My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

It's sad, actually. Everybody should be excited about Opening Day, but it feels like we're under a cloud. It's a shame.