You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

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.

I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day

Return good for good; return evil with justice.

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.