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. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

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.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

If you're not dead...you're not done.

I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

He alone may chastise who loves.