AVC: The tone of The Informers is really funereal. This isn’t a terribly funny movie.

BEE: No, and the script was really funny. [Laughs.] So what do you do? This is why the screenwriter should never be interviewed when a movie’s premièring. This really should be the director’s job, because it’s a director’s medium. It’s not a screenwriter’s medium. And actually going through this, being on the set and meeting the actors, you’re even more aware that it’s an actor’s medium, much more than it is a screenwriter’s medium, because they change so much of what you’re doing in terms of how they interpret it. Personally, I always think a lot of my work is funny—at least, I think it’s funny, I’m amused by it. Certainly I think in Rules Of Attraction that comes through, and in American Psycho. I think a lot of the work is funny, and in the script for The Informers,there was a lot of comedy in it. I wrote the script, it was made, and now it’s not funny. What do you do? What do I do? Do I sit around and complain about it? Not really.

This is how [Gregor] read the script and interpreted it, and this is how he decided to shoot it, and this is also how he decided to cut the movie. And again, I’m on the same page with Gregor and Marco in terms of… Well, in terms of being friendly and social with each other. I said, “Look, you know I have issues about this cut of the movie. There were cuts of the movie I thought were much better.” And they said, “This is the cut we like. This is what we want to go out with. There are DVDs. Maybe you can do a cut, Bret.” [Laughs.] Which I’m not particularly interested in doing.