Chris Terrio Quotations

Hi! We're at a Jack Johnson concert and he's just walked on stage. That was Glenn you just were talking to.

Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,

So we had a couple of long conversations in France and once I thought this script was in pretty good shape, I sent it to her. I knew I wanted Glenn from the beginning. In fact, I had tried to gear the character towards her. Glenn is a single mom who lives in New York and does theater and film. She's a very strong, intelligent person in the way that Diana (her character) is, so I think she made herself very vulnerable to play this part.

It's kind of that period in your 20s when you're on the verge of something and you feel that you're playing musical chairs, ... The music's about to stop and you'll have to sit down somewhere and you hope that you're making the right decision before it's too late. All the characters are well-intentioned, they're all trying to please everyone, and I think that's where they make bad choices.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

I need eclectic people in my life.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.