VANITY FAIR
In May of 2011, I sat in a conference room in Washington, D.C. The walls were papered with citations by presidents from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush, evidence of a life in power. In front of me was Donald Rumsfeld, a man who had helped persuade the country to go to war with Iraq, a war I strongly opposed. I was there to persuade him to let me make a film about him.
Rumsfeld showed me a crumpled piece of metal, a fragment of an anti-ballistic missile. He said, “They say you can’t hit a missile with a missile—well, look at this!”