this country, where there's an openness to fascism, they haven't seen since the era. what do you make of americans resistance to understanding the difficult parts of our history such that we won't repeat them? >> you know, that such a wonderful question and it goes to the heart of all of my work, history doesn't repeat itself but as mark twain supposedly said, firearms. and so, all of the films that i do, seemingly, safely in the distant pass aren't safe. you know there's an america first committee, what does trump have? we're always on precipice, and we see all of this flirtation with authoritarianism as you put it. and, in fact, the new york times about a month ago when a piece about how people are concerned about democracy but its way down on the list of the midterm stuff. well the midterms are passed and we're sort of taking a sigh of relief. the battle isn't over.