everything else would fall into place. Our relationship has gotten really good on a movie set, because we're natural collaborators. We can write together, and the way we work together extends to all our crew members and as a department. We believe that a film is made by the collective, so we encourage [input], and we love it when we're making the movie together. And so with Tom, he is philosophically very similar to us with his filmmaking family, so when we started making the script, it was very fluid. LW: Everyone always asks this question, and we find it slightly interesting and quite telling that nobody asks us how do we write together, which for us was the much bigger task. We have this strange thing, I think, that's happened in the world that has to do with wanting to understand cinema the way we understand other art forms. So we look at an art form like painting, or sculpture, or writing, and we think about this singular person working all by themselves and trying to say something from their one perspective. We try to project that traditional, conventional understanding of how art is made onto cinema. But this is a false assumption. Cinema is not like those other art forms. And people have trouble understanding this -- it doesn't seem to compute. Cinema is a social art form. You cannot make a piece of cinema by yourself. No matter what you do, no matter how controlling, no matter