I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
Nationalism. . . is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.
No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.
I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.
The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.
It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.