I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.
I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.
I recall my first foreign agent meeting was on a dark, moonless night with an agent I'd never met before. When I picked him up, he passed me the intelligence and I passed him extra money for the men he led. It was the beginning of an adventure I had only dreamed of.
Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.
I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.
There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.
So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
