Amanpour and Company

HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW AFTER ALL THESE YEARS? HOW HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO PROCESS IT EVEN INCLUDING IN THE YEARS SINCE YOU'VE BEEN RELEASED? >> FIRST, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, CHRISTIANE, YOUR AMAZING PROGRAM. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY HI TO OUR AUDIENCE. I WOULD LIKE TO SALUTE KEVIN AND STEVE. I MEAN, IN ONE WORD, I FEEL AMAZING. HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO WRITE A BEST-SELLING BOOK? AND HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO HAVE THAT BOOK TRANSLATED IN ABOUT 30 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES? AND HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO HAVE THAT BOOK ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE HELD BY ONE OF THE GREATEST DIRECTORS WHO EVER LIVED. I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING. IT'S BEYOND ME. IT'S JUST THE BIGGEST VINDICATION I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. IT'S ANOTHER PROOF THAT THE PEN CAN REALLY DEFEAT THE SWORD. >> IT'S QUITE HUMBLING TO HEAR YOU ACTUALLY, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH. WE'VE READ IT IN YOUR BOOK. WE'VE SEEN IT IN THE FILM. THE TORTURE WAS REALLY DRAMATIC. THE WATER BOARDING, THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT, ASSAULTS, YOU KNOW, THE BEATINGS, HANGINGS UP, THE MASSIVELY DIFFICULT TEMPERATURE FREEZING AND ALSO THE SOUNDS THAT YOU WERE SUBJECTED TO. I WONDER WHETHER KEVIN AND EVEN STEVEN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU HEAR SOMEBODY LIKE MUHAMMADU SAY THAT HE FEELS VINDICATED AND HE'S NOT BEARING GRUDGES. KEVIN, WHAT PROMPTEDYOU TO MAKE THIS FILM? >> WELL, EXACTLY THAT, WHAT YOU SAID AND TALKING TO MUHAMMADU. I READ HIS BOOK. I WAS ENORMOUSLY IMPRESSED BY IT. IT SHOULD BE SAID MUHAMMADU IS A BORN WRITER. HE WRITES BEAUTIFULLY. EVEN IF THE SUBJECT MATTER IN THIS CASE IS OFTEN UPSETTING, BUT IT IS REALLY NOT THE BOOK. IT WAS TALKING TO MUHAMMADU AND HEARING HOW HE HAS PROCESSED THIS. AS YOU SAY, THIS FORGIVENESS WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT FORGIVENESS, BUT THERE AREN'T MANY PEOPLE, I THINK, MAYBE NELSON MANDELA IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH SUCH HORROR AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO EMPATHIZE WITH THEIR GUARDS AND THEIR CAPTORS. THAT'S WHAT STRUCK ME. HE WAS ABLE TO THINK -- TO PUT HIMSELF IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S SHOES EVEN IF THAT PERSON IS A GUARD UNJUSTLY HOLDING HIM OR TORTURING HIM.