I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

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 think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what maybe a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought was great.

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

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.