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.

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.

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.

Slogans are mere wordsuck...

There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical