It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

