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

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

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.

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?

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

You have to win something for people to think about you.