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

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

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.

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

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

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.