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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 15th, 1946

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