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

"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"

"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."

"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 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 miss my mother very, very much."

"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."

"We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment."