United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

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.

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

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

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.