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

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

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

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

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

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.