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.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand up to the militarist element in our society.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

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