But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
From John le Carre
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.
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