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 Am….

You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts o….

I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after ….

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us..

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key..

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign..

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing..

I think our life is a series of adventures..

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end..

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror..

When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an a….

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing..

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….

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we d….

You get much more heat when you do something current..

Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound que….

We have enormous challenges in front of us..

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear….

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies..

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam..

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me..