Biografia

Co-author of the infamous book "Spycatcher" (1987) which was banned by the British government in the mid-1980s for revealing insights into how the British Secret Service (MI5) operated.

Originally slated to direct Rush: No Limite da Emoção (2013) but ultimately switched with Ron Howard for Capitão Phillips (2013) instead.

Ranked #28 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

Was the ghost writer of the memoir "Spycatcher" (1987) for MI5 officer Peter Wright.

Was set to direct the doomed movie adaptation of the comic book miniseries "The Watchmen" after previous directors Terry Gilliam (back in the 1980s), Darren Aronofsky, and briefly David Hayter all left the project.

[on his time with British current-affairs TV show 'World in Action'] A festival of puerile self-importance, intense paranoia, fiddled expenses and brilliant creativity.

By the time I'd done Domingo Sangrento (2002) I felt I reached the end of a chapter. I could feel it. I wanted to try something new, something different. Then, to my amazement, "Bloody Sunday" won lots of theatrical prizes, the audience award at Sundance, and then, to my even greater amazement, I had the opportunity to make a film in Hollywood. I mean, you wouldn't think, looking at my films, oh, there's a guy who's going to make films in Hollywood.

[on first turning down a 4th Bourne movie] I just felt that I'd done it. There's nothing unnatural about that. To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day. There were just too many other things that I was interested in. I felt that I had a wonderful, wonderful time. I loved it and I want it to continue and I hope that it does.

[how he developed his distinctive hand-held camera style] To be perfectly honest, i couldn't afford tripods.

[on Capitão Phillips (2013)] Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men. This performance is a study of endurance and heroism, but he crafts it from pieces of doubt, uncertainty and fear. It's not built from hubris.