I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

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.

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.

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

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