When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy’s questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn’t believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn’t believe that it was free.