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.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.