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.

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.

You get much more heat when you do something current.

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

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.