Robert Moses changed from an idealistic builder into someone who disregarded opposition and pursued projects according to his own wishes.

“Now, does it become... Does it evolve into where Moses listens to nobody, and the only thing that matters is what he wants to get built?”

“It does evolve into that. He does change. But the young Moses, the idealist, who before he's building, is an expert in civil service, technicalities of civil service, and devotes all his energies to trying to reform the civil service and make it, uh, that people get promoted on merit instead of political pull.”