Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

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?

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

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.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

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