I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.