We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.