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.

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.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

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.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.