You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'