A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.