There's an electrical thing about movies.

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

My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.

I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.