Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

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.

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

I love IMAX when it works right.

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.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.