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.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

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.

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.

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

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.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.