Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity