It’s as much defined by the people who haven’t gotten it as by the people who have,

The key is, if you’re not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

It added realism. Every once in a while, it’s nice to see somebody on screen who you felt was from that place and spoke like somebody from that place.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean’s films.

It’s about love and jealousy, … but in a place I don’t think has ever been shown in a film before. Or not as it is.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don’t.

I don’t think we should be trying to control how people experience art. They can see it on a screen or on a T-shirt. If you’ve got something that’s interesting, it just really doesn’t matter...

They’re forcing the issue onto characters, … force these people to be humiliated.

I know why we can’t have a frank discussion with our policymakers – if you’re in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.