Stephen Gaghan
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"Stephen Gaghan" is an People of the United States/American screenwriter and film director/director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic (2000 film)/Traffic, based on a Traffik/Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.

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[With a movie star,] they don't blend in - that's the point. That's why they get $20 million and 20 percent of gross, it's so they don't blend in, ... So when George said he wanted to play the role, that was my first question - how are we going to do this?

What I really got from Bob was this unbelievable sadness. He really did know how the world worked, and he really did seem like a wandering guy without a country, like an exile. And it was sad.

The greatest field trip I ever got to go on.

They heard that the script was anti-Saudi.

It's remarkable. The guy I started with in the end was the only person that I thought actually had a sort of selfless motivation.

It tackles, hopefully in an interesting way, things that are going on right now. We're talking about oil and oil politics, about the war on terror and about how families are adapting.

I just wanted to get together with him. I wanted to see, what is a Bob Baer? I'd never met a CIA officer. I'd only seen them in movies.

See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors.