The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

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

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

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.