Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered. ↗
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. ↗