"Well, you have to pick your fights," Person says, confessing that she herself is perfectly capable of fighting to the death over the color to paint a bedroom.

In an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another.

So it is cutthroat competition.

Ibelieve that capitalism, by its nature, is about conflict, and ultimately the life and death of firms.

The experience of mortal combat is unique and so difficult to quantify that directors really have to work at it in order to tell a story with all of this emotional distraction around it.