I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

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

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

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'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.