Keeping the Union TOGETHER, freeing SLAVES and being assassinated all added up to CREATING 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own PREJUDICES and became what many would CONSIDER the first black man's president.

As PEOPLE's OPPORTUNITIES to succumb to confirmation bias INCREASES online - only SEEKING out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, EXTREMISM and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

In the PAST, kids didn't tell their parents they were GAY, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the NEWS that their children are gay that the REACTION is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are GOING to die hard.

Indeed, there are so MANY PREJUDICES against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the MILITARY and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

There is SOMETHING so amiable in the prejudices of a YOUNG mind, that one is sorry to see them GIVE way to the reception of more general OPINIONS.

I know how messy things can GET when adults overstep their BOUNDARIES and insert themselves - their politics, their FEARS, their PREJUDICES, their ignorance - into the lives of YOUNG people.

When you're a KID, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by PREJUDICES. You're much more OPEN-MINDED. Much more INTERESTED in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that KIND of place.

I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very HUMAN need to be acknowledged. As director, I've GOT to PUT aside any particular biases or PREJUDICES that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or ACCEPTABLE way to get what you want.