Here's a interview of Tony Kusher on Lincoln with Billy Moyers, it's long but has an interesting trailer where every scene is someone shouting and it looks very action-y. Which is interesting because it is really a very slow movie. Though I liked it, anyway here is the link.
http://billmoyers.com/segment/tony-kushner-on-abraham-lincoln-and-modern-politics/
Also I found out Lincoln was filmed in three months, but Tony spent 6 years on the movie and wrote over 500 pages about 4 months.
I wasn't able to watch the whole interview due to my short attention span, but I found it interesting to learn that the movie was based off of the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. When we first saw it, I wondered what gave Kushner inspiration and now I have my answer.
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