America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.

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

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.

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.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.