bizarre credit to allow their rules to make sense for our film. Our film transcended their conventions, and they refused to evolve their conventions, or at least grant an exception to our film. We worked on the movie for four years and we shot for only two and a half months, three months. So the actual on-the-set stuff in the film is so minimal, it's hard for us to even talk about separating it. We wrote every word together --  AW: We prepped everything --  LW: Drew every storyboard --  AW: All the transitions are conceived by us. LW: Every transition, all three of us together. AW: And then we edited together. So the actual shooting period, we were in constant contact, we were always talking to each other. LW: We were always Skyping. AW: Texting, Skyping --  LW: We were next to each other on the sound stages. There's lots of things that we shot, everyone shot in the six stories, so if we actually pointed to scenes and said, "Who shot that?," no one would be able to guess. AVC: How did Tom Tykwer work into your usual shared dynamic? AW: Well, he plugged in incredibly easily. Much easier than we thought he would. We went on a working vacation to try to work through the book to see if we could even turn it into a script. Writing is the most intimate process when you're making a movie, so we knew that if we could write together,