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

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

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

I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

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.