"My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad."

"That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that."

"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."

"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."

"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got."

"I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books."

"I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."