Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that.