It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

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.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.