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"A critical moment in our courtship occured after we saw a documentary about Henry Kissinger that accused the former secretary of state of war cimes. There is a scene where Christopher Hitchens explains why Richard Nixon appreciated a Jewish intellectual like Kissinger, despite the fact that Nixon generally despised both Jews and intellectuals. What Nixon loved (according to Hitchens) was that Kissinger always knew what to do without being told; this struck me as one of the most insightful definitions of true intelligence I'd ever heard. When I told this to Diane during our postfilm debriefing at some boringly expensive bar in Greenwich Village, she was aghast. 'This movie is supposed to help you understand why Henry Kissinger should be in prison for politically motivated murder,' she said. 'It is not supposed to make you think he's somehow more interesting.' It immediality dawned on me that we were never going to agree on anything as long as we lived."