I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.