Brian Koppelman

For me, it's always the way people speak.

The way people speak...

has been fascinating to me for my entire life.

Like I could do impressions from a really young age.

I could understand people's, I could modulate my own vocabulary and,

to talk to somebody very quickly, understanding the limits of their vocabulary, really interested in word choice.

As just a human, way before I was a writer, I was really interested in word choice.

And so that's the thing, like those are the things that are kind of hallmarks in a way of someone who wants to write.

And curiosity, like I'm incredibly curious person, right?

I spent so much time reading, listening, watching just for me, you know, just because that's what makes my brain feel good.

Well, David and I both, he lives in Greenwich and I live in the city.

And we both found ourselves surrounded by these people with a certain kind of power.

And then we watched the people around them react to them.

And we watched the outsized way out.

when they were cutting through water, the size of the wake and then the clearance people gave that wake and all that.

I think that we've always studied and really found compelling people who mythologize themselves and tell them the world who they are in a certain way and about the credulousness of the world believing them.

But I'd say mostly, man, it just starts with being curious and it starts with...

There's an insular world.

We don't really know enough about it.

We see that it's kind of got some influence.