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

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" The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. "

" No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter. "

" The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. "

" I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do. "

" I prefer writing originals. "

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

" I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time. "

" I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that. "

" You change or you hide your head in the sand. "

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

" I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. "

" Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. "

" I worked for a lot of directors. "

" When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in. "

" 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? "

" I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on. "

" Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. "

" Different people work different ways. "

" The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. "

" You can't teach someone to be imaginative. "

" I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. "

" I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. "

" If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. "

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

" I can't imagine directing from someone else's script. "

" I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing. "

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

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" Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. "

" I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to. "