We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

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

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

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.