We just said, `Okay, you`re in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you`re on camera, that`s your wardrobe.` But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: `We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,` and when you ask what`s left, they say: `Well, the typing is very good.`
Those are fun, especially if they`re going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they`re not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, `How can you make a movie during an election that`s about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people`s lives?` To which my response was, `Well, I hope so.`