What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

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.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

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

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.