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. If we were advertising this movie as …

- Richard Shepard

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…

- Richard Shepard

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 that's interesting. I think i…

- Richard Shepard

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 movies where I'm like why…

- Richard Shepard

I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is…

- Richard Shepard

Same thing for the bad guy. People were really after this guy Radovan Karadicz. But I came up with a combination of several people, who then became T…

- Richard Shepard

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 will create characters so that…

- Richard Shepard

When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually compreh…

- Richard Shepard

For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story tha…

- Richard Shepard