Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: March 10, 1953
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me..
There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always..
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception..
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t..
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers..
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world..
If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how….
I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small pi….
We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best….
I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me..
I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American trag….
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it..
I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this ….
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly..
I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who st….
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is..
There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every….
Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week….
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you lea….
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness..
The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA..