You just kind of live with these characters through the story and at different points you feel different ways and I love the complexity of the story and the characters within the story, so that's what made me just kind of step up and say this is the one and I'm glad the film department and my producers, Lucas Foster, Allen Segal, all these guys had the balls to step up and say we're going to make this and we're not going to compromise.
With this movie it was so unpredictable and the characters are so complex, I mean you don't know at what point who the antagonist is or who the protagonist is at any given moment.
And, you know, with movies of this genre it's very easy to identify the bad guy and the good guy and pretty much predict what they're going to do. The concept of a guy taking an entire city hostage from prison is a great concept. What was it about this project that pulled you in that made you want to get back in the chair?į Gary Gray: Well, it was exactly that. I'm super envious that you're getting to live in France like that.į Gary Gray: I didn't get a chance to live there, it was just for a brief moment but it was definitely really fun to work with the French on their projects because you just shines a light on how.just the wide range of stories that you can tell and how to tell them and it also kind of points out some of the clichés that we fall into as American filmmakers and things like that, so it was just really refreshing. I taught a master class in film in France and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add.just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful. I went to Egypt and all throughout northern Africa and traveled all throughout South America, throughout Brazil and Europe and all throughout Italy, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, and I just really had a chance to.I had a good time and learned a lot. As Quincy Jones puts it, make deposits into the creative bank account because when you just withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, you know, bad things happen you know? And I took some time, I traveled the world. Collider: So I guess my first question is, you've taken I want to say a few years since your last film, so what was kept you away from movie theatres?į Gary Gray: Oh man, I needed to take a break, you know? I was putting one movie after another and.you know I had to really kind of decide that it's really, really time for me to take a break and recharge personally and even professionally.
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