I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much more interesting view of history than I've ever seen, and I hope to God it works. It's classic history, classically told. No talking heads. Just pure archival footage and a storyline.

Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

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

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.