We have enormous challenges in front of us.

When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.