When producer Ed Cunningham and I first conceived of a documentary following the pursuit of a classic video game record, we had a very simplistic vision of the way the story might play out. We would follow the rivalry between two men on one of the most hotly contested arcade titles of all time, Donkey Kong–Seth Gordon

Since making their debut as partners in 1998's “Rush Hour,” Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker have become one of the most entertaining if unlikely duo–call them film's odd couple.

Conversations about this project started in 2005 at a Frames concert in Dublin. As a filmmaker with a background in music, I had always wanted to make a film that, while not a traditional 'musical' (in the 1940s sense of the term), would still use a number of songs to tell a very modern, very simple love story.

The story of Bourne is the story of an outlaw, except he is not an outlaw in a Western landscape but in a contemporary landscape. It's not the sheriffs who are trying to bring him in; it's the CIA officers, but the story has the same shape as a Western–Paul Greengrass

The film I wanted to see, celebrating the disturbing, romantic, unconscious elements of the infmaous Leopold and Loeb case had never been made–Tom Kalin