When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

I miss my mother very, very much.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.