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" Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. "
Thought
Thinking
Doing
" A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. "
Beauty
Work
Woman
" But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. "
Life Is A
Me
Result
" But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. "
Time
Through
Nature
" 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. "
Lost
Lizard
Giant
" 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. "
History
Trying
Interpretation
" I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. "
Feel
You
Like
" I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can. "
Pictures
More
Love
" I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. "
Movies
Subject
Million
" 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. "
Lead
Like
Believe
" 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. "
Right
Debate
You
" 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. "
Research
I Can
Responsibility
" I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. "
Movies
Horror
Scared
" In any film there's always a historical implication. "
Always
Historical
Any
" I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. "
Put
Never
History
" I study history in order to give an interpretation. "
Interpretation
History
Study
" I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. "
Past
Future
Time
" I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. "
Power
History
People
" It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. "
Interesting
Hardest
Economic
" 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. "
Politics
War
Serious
" I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it. "
Say
Will
They Say
" 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. "
Take
Will
Wrong
" 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, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience. "
Family
Life
Experience
" Lunch is for wimps. "
Lunch
Wimps
" Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. "
Jealousy
Envy
Underestimate
" One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. "
Time
Life
India
" One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. "
Movies
Never
Should
" There's an electrical thing about movies. "
Thing
Movies
Electrical
" 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. "
You
Character
Follow
" When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it. "
Knowing
Child
Interested
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