Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.