If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
Same thing for the bad guy. People were really after this guy Radovan Karadicz. But I came up with a combination of several people,… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
So I like switching it up. I like that people are laughing but they don't even know if they should be laughing. I think… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
It's great when you can bait and switch people - and I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in truth.… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
