David Koepp

I never would have interpreted it that way.

And that's what the director does.

I always want to get it right if I can.

I think anything that involves science, I start the idea by doing as much research as I can possibly do.

Talking to people is always better than the internet, and certainly it's better than AI sources.

You mean a human-to-human conversation?

An actual conversation with a person.

Wow, novel.

Because then you'll come up with unexpected things and little character things and stuff.

But I stop at a certain point because I now realize, well, okay, now I have to write the story and the foremost responsibility of this movie is that it be entertaining.

So I cannot let reality and truth intrude too much on entertainment.

But then once I've written it, now there's another round of research.

Let's make this as close to reality as we can.

Okay, interesting.

Yeah, and it's not a documentary.

It's not not a documentary.

And they understand that going in, so I don't feel like I'm misleading society.

They understand this is not a documentary.

But anything I do that's real and grounded in truth and reality and actual research works better.

So you have a little black book with your science consultants in there?