Simon had originally conceived 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' as a TV show not as a movie.

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.