I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.

To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.