I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it`s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
For me the writing, when I`m going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don`t change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
I always felt like, okay, I`m going to try to tell stories whatever way I can and it would be cool to make a movie, and tell a story that way.
