David Koepp

Well, in this case, there was a lot of research first because there's been a lot.

There's a lot of material.

And you have access, right?

And you have access.

And people do want to talk.

It doesn't hurt if you can say it's a Steven Spielberg movie.

Then they really want to talk.

They actually return your phone call.

Henceforth, we saved a David Koepp movie that... That gets one kind of return phone call.

Well, the first thing you want to do is reread it.

I'd read it as a kid and I knew the book well, but I had not read it with the intention of making it into a movie.

So I read it again.

I didn't watch the George Powell movie yet because I didn't want to remake that.

We were trying to reinterpret the book for modern times.

You reread the novel and start to think what applies, what doesn't.

But you have to have an idea for how do I make this different from a book where everything is explicit and everything is said and you know what people think and you know what they feel and science can go on for pages.

How do I make this a movie experience?

And the big thing in that was limiting the point of view.

You have to have an idea.

Our idea there was, okay, let's go from one person's point of view and