We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

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

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

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.