Are we going to be stronger than the sum of our parts or are we going to be endlessly bickering among ourselves and allowing the bully to basically mop the floor with us?

We don't believe there's a syndrome. We don't believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We don't believe that the formula is grounded in scientific evidence.

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.

Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it, ... There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

To sum it all up, it's about repetition.