When I Was Growing Up, Everybody In

I Do Not Want To Admit To The World That I Can Be A Bad Person. It Is Just That I Don't Want Anyone To Have False Expectations. Moviemaking Is A Harsh, Volatile Business, And Unless You Can Be Ruthless, Too, There's A Good Chance That You Are Going To Disappear Off The Scene Pretty Quickly.

There's A Small Percentage Of People Who Can Act. There's A Small Percentage Who Get To Do This For A Living. There's A Swath Of The Population That Are Able To Keep A Story In Their Head And Fight All The Battles Against Self-consciousness And The Surreal Unnaturalness Of Acting In A Movie. The Technical Aspects You Can Learn Fairly Quickly.

Back In World War Ii, We Viewed The Japanese As 'yellow, Slant-eyed Dogs' That Believed In Different Gods. They Were Out To Kill Us Because Our Way Of Living Was Different. We, In Turn, Wanted To Annihilate Them Because They Were Different. Does That Sound Familiar, By Any Chance, To What's Going On Today?

What We're Doing With Band Of Brothers Is Trying To Put It Into Human Terms, So It Is Not Just A Flickering, Black And White Myth On A Screen, It Is A Resonant Story. I Want The Audience To Recognize Themselves In These Men. They're Not Just Mythic Heroes.

I Am A Lay Historian By Nature. I Seek Out An Empirical Reflection Of What Truth Is. I Sort Of Want Dates And Motivations And I Want The Whole Story. But I've Always Felt, Unconsciously, That All Human History Is That Connection From Person To Person To Person, Event To Event To Event, And From Idea To Idea.