I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion o….

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'..

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you los….

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets..

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done..

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched..

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling ….

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone el….

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know..

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of ….

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow..

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 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 optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with fl….

I miss my mother very, very much..

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half doze….

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liber….