I'd flown more missions than anybody on
this base and every time I get close a
raisin on Danny's head falls blah I want
to see I can't do this anymore
you think this is a big fat joke you can
ground me if I'm crazy right oh sure
half though I half the ground anyone
who's crazy then ground me I'm crazy or
not crazy why not
catch-22 as soon as you ask to get out
of combat duty you're no longer crazy
and so you have to fly more missions
honestly it wasn't important to me in
the beginning I got a call and I said
you want to do it and I said no because
it is a classic novel and there's great
risk in doing those kind of things but
then I read the scripts and I thought
well this is a really interesting way of
tackling this which is to spend time
with these characters and once we were
able to do once I've read those I
thought well yeah this is a really good
story and as you know you do this all
the time it's very hard to find good
stories you know and so when you find a
good story it's will worth taking a
couple of years working on when I watch
this show on TV it really finally
explained to me catch-22 the movie right
and then made me wonder is this new form
of TV the new cinema because it just
expands and makes you really I think
there's certain story stories that
actually this format is better than
cinema right the veteran in the film
unless you wanted to show a
four-and-a-half-hour version of a movie
this gives us an opportunity to get to
understand each of the characters
because we kill a lot of people and in a
movie if you're gonna kill them you got
to care about them and so you don't get
that chance in a film and you do in the
in a television series they're still you
know stories that should absolutely be
on the big screen and but I enjoy the
ability to tell the story over a longer
period of time so is it fair that now
the streaming for instance like Netflix
is branded not cinema and receiving
these hostilities sometimes from day I
think I think that's ridiculous because
you know when when we did good night and
good luck
we were released on four screens you
know at first that's how it works you
know smaller films of Romo was a Netflix
film it's a smaller film
Netflix has been amazing by supplying
the ability for younger directors to do
really interesting work and I don't know
why that would be punished by saying
that's not cinema I mean just because
it's doing opening in some theaters and
then on streaming at the same time I
don't see why that
it's no different Romania me happy happy
happy dead you worry worry worry it
doesn't make a difference who wins the
Lord is someone who's dead Americans
like to harken back to World War two
where they felt like you know they were
sort of on the right side of all of this
um but it's also fun to talk about the
complexities of all of that inside and
and again it's always just absurdity you
know no matter who is making the
decisions somehow it's always absurd
that young people have to die because
other people make decisions the
commander he sends him to war is his
enemy and his enemies are his enemies
right okay the absurdity of war but some
day would tell you Bohr is a necessity
well sure well yeah
war is a necessity but it's a necessity
because of absurd decisions made by one
government or one person at a time
so yes world war two was absolutely a
necessity but it was absurd what
Mussolini and Hitler wanted to do along
the way so it is always still basically
comes down to how absurd it is that
someone would some old man in general
would make decisions that young people
would have to die for so but you are not
a pacifist well sure I'm a pacifist I if
you if you asked me what I believe in
more than anything I would believe that
peace is that you exact the greatest
would be the correct I'd love to see
peace and you know it all around the
world and I don't know people who
wouldn't so certainly am a pacifist in
that way is important to remind them of
who we are and who we have always been
which is you
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any updates about your schools in
Lebanon and giving them new geopolitical
well we have a current we have 3000 kids
now a lot of them are Syrian refugees we
also have Lebanese children also in the
schools because you know you don't want
to just take care of one group of people
in one area so we have 3,000 more kids
in schools that Amal and I in our
foundation have been able to do there do
it didn't classes at night you know
we're doubling up the school and the
teachers so that's going pretty well we
wish we'd scale it up more but you know
that requires a you know that requires
Bill Gates kind of money not our kind of
money so we're working on that and in
the meantime we have a lot of other
things we're working on - so the new
changes did not affect your project no
see it opened up you've just carry on
with the city we're still doing the same
things that's our job