I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

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

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

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

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.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.