I mean, there are cultural aspects of this that I have to really immerse myself in because I’m not Japanese. It feels almost a little invasive to be telling the story from their perspective, but what the hell? Somebody’s got to tell the story, and I’m not going to tell it from a jingoistic, nationalistic American perspective, because I don’t want to deal with all the sociopolitical aspects of, should it have been dropped, all that stuff. I don’t want to deal with that.
I’ve got to be very careful about it not being an indictment of the people who dropped the bomb. I think the message needs to be, this thing happened. It happened to real people. Let’s not go into why it happened and who was to blame and all that sort of thing. But let’s just take that as a moment in history frozen in amber that we need to learn from. We need to cherish that memory, because that memory might just keep us alive.
How can you learn from something without understanding why it happened?
The next level of shoot and cry is shoot and I wasn't even there. I was sleeping
I guess Hiroshima just did that 
This is consistent with Cameron, when the first Avatar came out and was a smash hit, some Leftist interviewer asked him does he see the similarities between the movie Avatar and Palestine. Palestinians even painted themselves all blue and peacefully marched. Cameron gave the same weak ass response.
Don't expect celebs to be some anti-imperialist leftist unless they outright claim themselves one, like Boots. REM was the latest big disappointment when they wanted to raise funds for Radio Free Europe when Trump cut funds to USAID.
I think anyone who is in a position to become rich and influential like a celebrity is probably someone who either supports the status quo and never thinks about it, or was more radical when they were younger, but have turned to worshipping the dollar since then and know that if they are too "extreme" they can get blacklisted by the people who will happily work alongside known pedophiles for years.
Yes. Relevant quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair, 1935.