I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.