The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

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

I love IMAX when it works right.

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?

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.