“I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.”
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.