We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

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

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

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.