Spy Games Quotes

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?

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like they need to move back to Pierce Brosnan-style fun Bond again. If they did that, Dan Stevens would be the perfect choice.

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

There is only one law of espionage—there are always going to be spies.

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

I have three brothers; we've been playing James Bond forever.

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.