"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."

War, America, Country, States

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"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."

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"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

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"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

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"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."

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"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

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"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."

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