I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.