And it seems to have hit a chord in the hearts and minds of people who see it, who feel that it has some relevance in the world.

The pendulum in Hollywood is coming back to story-telling.

Paul and I tried to write from a place that was real and honest. Maybe the issue of race isn't the same as it was, but it's still here. We tried to dig into the soul and find the place where it was coming from.

I thought that Jack [Nicholson, who presented the Oscar] had a little too much to drink and said the wrong film.

Paul was interested in how complete strangers affect each other in ways they could never imagine, and I was interested in the notion of fear.

That gave us the script pretty much that we shot.