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The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.