One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.