We have enormous challenges in front of us.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts of the German war machine per Winston Churchill, who said that they won the war. From the beginning, we were hostile to the guys who had saved how many American lives by their repulsion of the Nazis? I think the Americans lost 400,000 in the whole war. And the Americans knew it at the time. They gave Joseph Stalin credit. He was the man of the year, cover of Life magazine in 1943; he was a hero.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.