And that, for me, it has to have some answers. And by “ answers”, I don’t mean just a punch line. It’s very hard to talk about these things without being very corny. You use a word like self-purgation or epiphany, they think you’re either a religious weirdo or an asshole college professor. But those are the words for the process, this transmutation, this renaissance, this rebirth, which is the basis of all life. The one rule that all man, from the time they first were walking around, looking up at the sun, scratching around for food and an animal to kill, the first concept that, I feel, got into their head was the idea of life and death. That the sun went down and the sun went up. That the crop, when they learned how to make a crop, it died. In the winter, everything died. The first man, he must have thought, “oh my god, it’s the end of the world!” And then all of a sudden, there was spring, and everything came alive, and it was better. After all, look at Vietnam, look at my movie, you’ll see what I’m talking.