I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
“It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.”
“As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.”