I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.
When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who. . . did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of suspected terrorists to black sites where they were administered enhanced interrogation techniques, which by the way is a direct, literal translation of "verschärfte Vernehmung" right out of the Gestapo manual.
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.
On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.
You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.
It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.