He told me to put on a suit and go downtown to the old Bowery Bank - because it has neo-Roman architecture - where they'd like to interview me on tape about Rome.

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There was a general awareness in the countries affected that there would be problems, but the magnitude has caught everyone unawares.

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Julius Caesar built that bridge over the Rhine in 10 days. Ten days! They've been trying to fix the Van Wyck since I moved to New York City in 1971. Twenty years and $20 billion later and we still don't have a subway to JFK.

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The movie is really a grandiose and full of life rock-and-rolling adventure story, but it's really about peace and love. It's also about a guy trying to find peace.

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I have nothing to do with sci-fi. I've done a couple of sci-fi movies. I never approach them as that genre. You know, they're all dramas. Sci-fi, the idiom of sci-fi has created a context into which you can pour all sorts of great human dilemmas. So that's what I'm directing. I'm directing a modern-day humanist drama with comic elements.

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My fascination with ancient Rome started as a kid back in Texas when my father turned me on to Robert Graves, who wrote 'I, Claudius,'.

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