In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

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

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

There's an electrical thing about movies.