What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.