What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

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

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.