In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

