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

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

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

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.