[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.

The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has