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.

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.