It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

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.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

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.