The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.

Life is generally pretty damn amazing if you let it be.

The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.