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

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.

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.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.