That was normal public opinion, … He was not abnormal.

It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, … It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda.

He’s too close – he lived well into the 20th Century, … If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presidents and Robert E. Lee and many other southerners … They haven’t been damaged. No one...

I think that was his humanity coming through, … That he wanted this naturally without a lot of force or war…

Birth of a Nation.

But that was the general view of the times, north and south, … He was not unusual in that view. The only thing was that he became exceptional with an exceptional movie that many people...