I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself.