I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

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.

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

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.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

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