In A Sense I've Made The Same

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.

It Is The Great Arrogance Of The Present To Forget The Intelligence Of The Past

I Began To Feel That The Drama Of The Truth That Is In The Moment And In The Past Is Richer And More Interesting Than The Drama Of Hollywood Movies. So I Began Looking At Documentary Films.

You Don't Work On Something For Six Years And Be Blind To The Myriad Of Other Approaches.

I Am Passionately Interested In Understanding How My Country Works. And If You Want To Know About This Thing Called The United States Of America You Have To Know About The Civil War.