What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

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

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

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.