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What do you want people to take away from the film?
I hope that people enjoy seeing a part of the life of FDR that's not familiar to most people in any detail. And it seems, from so many commentators, the notion of the fundamental impact on FDR's character, and on everything... subsequent to his contracting polio, as a result of that traumatic change, is something that people can understand for a man who is the longest serving president in American history, who presided over the most extraordinary world events and catastrophic events.

To see the personal and emotional center of the events that helped forge a new version of his character in a very emotional, I hope not sentimental, but very emotional way... I think that that could provide an entertaining and intelligent insight into how important it was for him... as it is for anyone to meet the struggles and the challenges that life throws at us, and realize that with... sufficient determination and sufficient imagination, and with... not just a little, but a lot of help from your friends... anything is possible.

INTERVIEW BY HBO