When John Malkovich walked into the make-up test for the first time dressed as Buck Howard, honestly, tears almost came to my eyes.  He just looked so much like I had imagined Buck.  We start taking some Buck Howard stills and John did all these poses and weird smiles.  And I realized that he really got it.  After that moment, I knew he was going to be fantastic as Buck Howard–Sean McGinly.

Though he's written for and directed a who's who of Hollywood talent, Gilroy admits casting Oscar winner Roberts as his leading lady made him a bit nervous.  “You get past your first, 'Oh, this is Julia Roberts and I'm working with her,'” he laughs.  “You watch her working, and it's effortless.  She's such a veteran and so smart about what the camera means to her”–Writer-Director Tony Gilroy

Immigration is an essential part of the American identity.  Our country has always been identified, as a welcoming country and it’s sad that there’s so much anti-immigrant sentiment being expressed today–Director Wayne Kramer 

Adding to the book's mystique, with its intricate, multi-layered storytelling and dialogue, symbolism and synchronicity, flashbacks and meta-fiction, Watchmen has long been considered in a class of its own and virtually unfilmable.

When I first read the script, my interest was piqued by a key scene, the story’s hero, Louis Salinger, encounters the bank’s assassin by chance on a Manhattan street and an unpromising lead turns into a momentous shift in the case.  The quiet tension of that scene, as Salinger and his colleagues follow the assassin, builds to a climax at the Guggenheim Museum.  That scene left an indelible impression and struck me as a great movie moment.  As the Guggenheim museum events unfolded immediately thereafter, I began to think this could become an interesting film.  The last 40 pages of the script made it for me–Director Tom Tykwer