I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

Feminine is never out of style

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.