It’s remarkable. The guy I started with in the end was the only person that I thought actually had a sort of selfless motivation.

They heard that the script was anti-Saudi.

It tackles, hopefully in an interesting way, things that are going on right now. We’re talking about oil and oil politics, about the war on terror and about how families are adapting

[With a movie star,] they don’t blend in – that’s the point. That’s why they get $20 million and 20 percent of gross, it’s so they don’t blend in, … So when George said he...

the greatest field trip I ever got to go on.

I just wanted to get together with him. I wanted to see, what is a Bob Baer? I’d never met a CIA officer. I’d only seen them in movies.

What I really got from Bob was this unbelievable sadness. He really did know how the world worked, and he really did seem like a wandering guy without a country, like an exile. And it...

See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors.

I could have concentrated on George Clooney’s character, … I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a...

Battle of Algiers.