I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

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.

My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then to Yale. My parents got divorced in that period, and I realized I didn't have a life anymore. I was the only child, so a three-person family breaks apart. I ended up very conformist, very scared, very lonely. I couldn't go on with Yale, just couldn't do it. I'd been doing too much of that for too long. I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew what I didn't want, which was to go to Wall Street and join the crowd there.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.