Different people work different ways.

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

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

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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?

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.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.