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

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

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.

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.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

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

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.