Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

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

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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?

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.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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

Different people work different ways.

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

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

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.