The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

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?

Different people work different ways.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.