War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

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.