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

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

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.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.