I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

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.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

You get much more heat when you do something current.