I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.
I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
writing = ass + chair
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to find its way to cooperate with people and bring a global peace that could bring great prosperity to this globe, there is still a chance of that, and that's a big lesson from history. We are not paying attention to that.
