You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.

The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

There's nothing better than having a collaborator that you have a great shorthand with and a great comfort with who's shepherding the project along. I mean, that's the best thing that can happen in cinema where there's many cooks in the kitchen.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.