In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

I think all directors should be animators.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.