In A Sense I've Made The Same

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

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.

Write: Write Letters. Keep Journals. Besides Your Children, There Is No Surer Way Of Achieving Immortality.

I Wake The Dead. I Bring Jackie Robinson And The Roosevelts To Life. Who Do You Think Im Trying To Wake Up?