He realised, before I did almost, that combat was very repetitive, and extremely dramatic, but something that is dramatic isn't necessarily meaningful.
"I look for something that's dramatic and flows beautifully, and I try to reproduce that visually," he said.
So I think you can expect something that's dramatic and shocking and intense and emotional and uplifting and enlightening.
"They'll take something that is dramatic, like a fire, and try and use that; or a tornado, or a hurricane and say 'see, people are being hurt.'".
The documentary sparked a lot of debate in Perugia, inspiring comments like "for the umpteenth time, Perugia is on trial, slandered, defamed without a chance of redemption", or something to that dramatic Italian effect.
In Carroll's view, the real shame wasn't that the movie got it wrong, it's that it missed a chance to do something that was both dramatic and scientifically accurate.
He craved something that was "gentle and dramatic and lovely and sweet, not crude".
"They have to do something that's different and dramatic," Mr. Deaver said.
"I am so excited about the possibilities of really engineering something that will make a dramatic difference," Branson told me when we were on Necker Island.
