Usually you think you know all the stories.
And we wanted it to be accessible.
We liked all those John Sturges films.
We also wanted to make it entertaining.
That was the goal.
The famously selective Murray addressed why he decided to work on the picture.
Id thought about it for a whole year, so I said yes.
The story is so fascinating, and as they say, untold.
Most people dont know this story.
It was really fun.
We called Bob the next day.
You dont want to take somebody whos real and heroic and give them a drinking problem.
Its not really fair to do.
So we changed the names because we wanted to be able to play with the story some.
But these are all based on real men.
Valland risked her own life and provided critical information to the Monuments Men.
I found that the fear that she had to serve under on a daily basis was very inspiring.
Thats what we sought to do with this.
I thought the script and then the movie did it beautifully.
I think its a question we are struggling with all the time.
Is it just pretty?
What does art do for us?
How does it represent us?
Its our whole inner life out there for people to see and its subtle.
I think its very hard to depict and I thought that the movie did it really well.
You had to destroy the things that they had created from generations before.
You had to destroy what made the village theirs.
We keep relearning how important those things are and how important those pieces are.
What are you fighting for if its not for your culture and your life?
Its also about culture.
It is mankinds way of recording history.
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