Brian Koppelman

And so, no, I wasn't... I'll say that all the fear was... All the fear, as it always is, was about the emotions I'd feel in failure, but at an earlier stage.

It was a...

it was about the fear of not getting the opportunity.

But once we got the opportunity, there was no fear.

It was just like, you had to just keep it, you had to keep going.

You know, there were many stops along the way where it could have fallen apart.

but we just kept pressing forward.

Okay, someone has notes, they want to change it wildly, let's get in there and do it.

I was never not aware of what a big opportunity it was.

And I'll say one thing that I think we all do often is when something good happens or when you're in the middle of something momentous, often we keep blinders on and we just kind of move forward because we've trained ourselves

That, again, that kind of an awareness of something can come with a bunch of emotions.

But when Dave and I walked onto the Warner Brothers lot the first day that we were all shooting the movie, we did make it a point, and maybe this is one of the blessings of having a creative partner and not going through all of it alone, but we made it a point to take a breath and say, okay,

we may never be a part of something like this again.

Hollywood may never do something like they're building this giant casino over there.

George Clooney's over there and Brad Pitt's over there and Matt Damon's right there.

And like, we did have an awareness in a good way that this was very fortunate thing.

And that if we're engaged in all this, there should be some moments that we breathe it in

and accept that this is really good and this is fun, and then do the work.

Then forget that, do the work, but have a moment of grabbing onto it.

Because most of the time I don't, and afterwards I regret it if I did.