I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.