I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.