David Koepp

I think we assume, well, the Spaniards wiped out the Aztecs, therefore this is what's going to happen to us.

Yeah.

It's another way of thinking about it, which is... But that's it.

And it's fairly consistent across his four movies where he's touched on the subject.

In three of the cases...

I don't know if they're benevolent or not, but they're certainly not malevolent.

And then in War of the Worlds, it's, you know, anything goes.

But that's just for diversity of viewpoint.

Well, you have to have the second part of what you said.

You have to have the inside they think they're doing the right thing.

And you have to think of it from their point of view and find real reasons to justify why that might be the right thing.

Why might they be correct?

Because any good actor is going to come in, well, first of all, your story's better that way.

But any good actor is going to come in.

Yeah, and you're not really, you stop paying attention.

You don't take the movie as seriously.

You're not as engaged.

But any good actor is going to come in and act like their character's a lawyer.

And they're going to say, now you're not fairly representing my client's interests here.

You better be right.