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

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

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

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 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?

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

I worked for a lot of directors.