It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

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

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

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