Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

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

I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.