The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.