It's a brilliant and intriguing idea, and the moment I read the script, I knew it was my next film. I started working on it back in '95,
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I had been offered a couple of things but had turned them down, ... They weren't my kind of films. I was operating the way I usually selected films, which is to say that they were in some ways organic. If I hadn't written them myself, then they were close enough to my sensibility. Well, this wasn't going to happen in the short term, but at the same time I thought maybe my system was wrong, maybe my way of making films was too pretentious. So I called my agents and said, Could you just get me a go picture' You know, one of these green-lit films. Along came three films, and one of them was Witness.'
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