I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

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.