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

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.

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.

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.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

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

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.