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 just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

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.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.