A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

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.

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.

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

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

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.