You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

I need eclectic people in my life.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

Don't give up your dreams.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.