Do Not Lose Your Enthusiasm. In Its

You Can Learn As Much About The History From Reading About The Present As You Can Vice Versa, That Is Learning About The Present Through History, Which Is What I Do For A Living.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

I Never, Ever Want To Apologize For A Film. If It's Bad I'll Say It's My Fault. And That's What I Can Say So Far In All The Films That I've Done, That If You Don't Like It, It's Entirely My Fault.

Filmmaking Is Essentially About Entertainment, But It's Amazing To Realize That It Has This Other Muscle That Could Actually Help. Do You Know What I Mean? People Permit Entertainment To Wash Over Them, But Every Once And A While, Entertainment - And This Is Entertaining - Also Galvanizes Something Else And That Would Be A Really Good Thing To Have Happen In This Case.