I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.