As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

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 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.

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

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

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.