I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.