I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.