Every single time, Tom Hanks was the first who said, "I'm getting on the plane." And then once he said he was getting on the plane, basically everyone said, "Well, Tom's on the plane, we're on the plane." And so everyone flew [to Berlin to begin the film]. It was like this giant leap of faith. From all over the globe. AVC: Was there anybody you really wanted for it that you just couldn't get? AVC: Almost everybody in the cast gets a chance to switch off between hero roles and villain roles, smaller roles and bigger roles. But Hugo Weaving is always the heavy. Why is that? LW: He's our evil muse. AW: Hugo has some issues that he's working out with us, I think. LW: Yeah, people think it's about us, but it's really about him. AW: [Laughs.] He's so nice in his everyday life that he just --  LW: He needs that --  AW: Needs to play these baddies. [Laughs.] AVC: How did you select who would direct which segment of the film? LW: That was never really part of the process. We keep trying to explain to people that, first of all, the credit you see in the movie was this kooky thing invented by the Director's Guild, because they couldn't understand how three people could direct a movie together. And they have this convention that the only way directors can be multiply credited on a film is if it's an anthology, so they invented this