Money is only irrelevant if you have it,

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

I think they're both inward-looking. That's the most obvious parallel between the two,