In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.