There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
Whenever you read a spy story in the press, you know you are being spun.
I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.
I love the house in 'North by Northwest.'
When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.
I invented the historical spy novel.
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
