Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

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.

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.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.