You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.