 It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. |
| Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize. |
| Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. |
| Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. |
| Lunch is for wimps. |
| You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. |
| I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can. |
| If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. |
| There's an electrical thing about movies. |
| I study history in order to give an interpretation. |
| I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take. |
| I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. |
| I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. |
| Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. |
