“In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.”
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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
