I miss my mother very, very much.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

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

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

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.

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