The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.