Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

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.

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

In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.