I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

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

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

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 leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

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

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

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

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 dozen, that would be a big day.

Your heart will always open again if you let it.

People addicted with technology.Technology has indulged mankind. Beware of technology dependency!

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I'm a firm believer of wine.

Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.