I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

