The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

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

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

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.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

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 really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.