“I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and sta...” — Tom Clancy Quote

“I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.”

“Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.”

“There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.”

“Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.”

“Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.”

“I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.”

“It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.”

“I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.”

“The Premier League is a championship that amazes me. I like the playing style and the teams.”

“It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.”

“We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.”

“It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.”