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

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

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.

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

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.