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

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

You get much more heat when you do something current.