Each actor requires a different language.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

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

I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject.