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

I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

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

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

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