00:00I don't know if I'm really a director or not, but I'm absolutely committed to a subject and a story, and then I feel like I can do anything, but I have to really believe in whatever the material is, and this I felt was so important to kind of get this conversation out there, and then we can begin to evaluate.
00:24I mean, this is kind of a global issue, like where we are with nuclear weapons, and of course, hope against hope.
00:33You know, maybe we reduce the nuclear stockpile someday, but in the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite, and so my interest was to get that information out there.
00:45From the very beginning, we had an amazing initial conversation that my wonderful agent, who's here for I Am Ziprold, introduced me.
00:54I said, I'm interested in this space.
00:56He said, well, there's a subject matter expert who's also a screenwriter you may want to speak to, and that's now an opposite.
01:02In terms of the stylistic approach, I was fortunate enough to work with who I think is probably the most talented cinematographer in the business ever,
01:13and his gift is to make it feel as real as possible.
01:19He had come from documentaries, so it's really just a natural translation and transition into a theatrical piece, so I was fortunate enough.
01:31I probably wouldn't have made the movie if he wasn't available, but that's how important he was.
01:36The script really comes from conversations with people in those rooms, and so that is an evidence of, as you say, perhaps an isolationist approach,
01:50and that's good to point out and good to be aware of, for sure.
01:53We'll see you next time.
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