I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."

I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.