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

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

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

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

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 used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.