And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

Amen” means ‘Yes’, it is done, glory to God!

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

I'm too old-school to tweet.

I only get writer's block about once a day.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe