If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

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

I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

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

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.

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