The audience requires not information but drama.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.