Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as in our minds names do in the course of a year or two.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life so I just make films as I see the world and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.