[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

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