But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.