Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

I need eclectic people in my life.

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.