Ambiguity Depletes As Your Budget Rises.

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.

Fear Changes Everything. We're Animals, And When We Get Afraid We Act Like Animals. I'm Not Exempt From That.

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?

Once A Film Costs A Certain Amount Of Money, Things Have To Round Off.

No One Should Feel Sorry For A Successful Screenwriter.