I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggl….

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history..

writing = ass + chair.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history..

There's an electrical thing about movies..

I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors ….

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over..

Each actor requires a different language..

The U.S. ultimately decides what the national security threat is. They put Russia one, Iran two, China three - the terrorists are down the list. But ….

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 ….

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing i….

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape..

JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would ….

In any film there's always a historical implication..

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken..

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly..

I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge contributions from Goldm….

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about..

You've also heard stories about how the military-industrial complex really does prefer Hilary Clinton because they know that she's not nuts like some….

My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then to Yale. My parents got d….

This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go gl….