Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes through, what the issues are, the good and bad sides of war and what we're asking our military to do.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.