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.

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

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.

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

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.

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

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