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Q: If I follow your footsteps of movies, it sort of makes me wonder if you are a concerned citizen.

A: I AM a concerned citizen. You know I've been a supporter of Brack Obama for about almost two years now and it's been a very exciting couple of weeks, I have to say. I think that what's most interesting to me is that we in America fell off the map for asking tough questions, you know, and we stopped caring about what was going on our world or in our nation. It was more about what was going on in our homes. And when you do that, in general, a lot of bad things can happen outside your home and you have to sort of pay attentions to the things are going besides just your doorstep. And I think right now you're starting to see the effects of that and I think our country is coming to terms with that. That's why I'm excited about what's going in our country right now. More people are showing to vote than that have ever showed up to vote. It's a different time right now. I think after 7 years of mistakes we are ready to start fixing some of those and that's the good thing about democracy.

Q: Since you brought it up, what issues do you particularly care about in the current election?

A: I have certainly my own issues, personal issues. I'm very involved in Darfur and atrocities there. Other issues: Chad is going through many of the same kinds of issues although their government is not attacking them. Congo is still trying to settle a long long war. So those kinds of foreign affairs are big. But the main one, obviously, for me was the war. That's the one that got me so much troubled and that's the reason I made ﾒGood night, good luckﾓ and the reason why I made ﾒSyriana.ﾓ So I think ultimately, if you are really talking about the war, you are really talking about this energy. So at the end of the day, everything has been, even Darfur, is still about the oil, strangely. It's always about oil.

Q: Can you elaborate that a little bit?

A: Well, if you think about it, if the north finds oil, and the north and the south or the east and the west have been sort of fighting one another, or been angry with one another, and suddenly you have one group that ends up with a lot of money and with ability then to go out at least by proxy arm a lot of people to harm them. Oil is the issue. There could be oil under all that other land and if you get them all for the land you can go look for it. Nobody's on deeds so you can just take that property if you want to, so again it feels like oil and it really does feel like if you really want to fight the war on terror, the idea would be to stop needing the product, you know, if you don't need the product, then they go away. They go back to the power structure in the rest of the world that they should probably have, which is not that they should be ostracized, but that they should have exactly the amount of power that their country decides their country needs, you know.