We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

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.

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

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.