But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

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

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 have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

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

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.