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

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

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

I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.