The past assumes the nature of the present.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

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

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.