00:00I think the pursuit of authenticity. You know, I want it to be honest and true, and so you're creating a kind of truth and a draft of history, so to speak, like in Zero Dark Thirty.
00:15Nobody, you know, I spoke with the 9-11 families, and many of them had no idea what happened in those 10 years between the event and the pursuit of, the final pursuit of Osama bin Laden and Hurtlacher.
00:31Again, the methodology of the insurgency in Iraq, that was a very opaque part of our history.
00:38And in this case, I personally, I wanted to know what, you know, where we are, again, with the nuclear stockpile and how volatile it is and who's taking care of it,
00:53who's, which, you know, it turns out that it's these incredibly competent people operating in an infinitesimally short timeline,
01:04and it's only the stake, the fate of the world is at stake.
01:10It's how it's put together. I mean, I had an extraordinary technical team, which I mentioned Barry, I mentioned Barry Ackroyd a minute ago,
01:18but we have Jeremy Hindle, who built the sets and, you know, provided environments that these people,
01:27that also give it a kind of degree of reality that, yes, the script is extraordinary,
01:33but at the same time, you need the environments in which these actors and characters perform.
01:40And, like, for instance, StratCom, he went to StratCom, and it was an absolute replica.
01:47People are not allowed in a place like StratCom, which is the nuclear umbrella of the country.
01:53So that was an extraordinary gift to the film.
01:58And then the editing, Kurt Baxter balancing all of these, like, it's like a juggling act.
02:05I mean, all of these simultaneities and the details, and, yes, the humanity of it,
02:12it's almost like a three-dimensional chess.
02:14We kept talking about that when we were shooting it.
02:16Like, how do you, okay, he's there, but then he's doing that,
02:20and then he's jumping out off the roof of the Pentagon while he's in the Marine One.
02:26I mean, it just, balancing all of that and the kind of careful precision
02:30that was necessary for the humanity to come through, that's an extraordinary editor.
02:37And then, of course, supporting it with a score that is, for me, just off the chart.
02:44Volker just created a, I mean, I don't know.
02:47I've never heard anything like it.
02:49So I am a very fortunate director to have amassed such a great crew.
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