If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the….

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

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put….

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of d….

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside..

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

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….

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….

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….

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have fo….

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me..

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 ….

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired fr….

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly..

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….

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable..

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..

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

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much..

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, tw….

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20..