There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.