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

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

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

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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

I worked for a lot of directors.

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?