Q. What attracted you to this story?

A. I just fell in love with the story because it really isn’t about the intermittent windshield wiper, it’s about someone who has a dream — like so many of us do — and he decided he wasn’t going to take it when somebody stole his dream. What I was attracted to was that the story was about principle, and that people could really understand and relate to that. That’s what I was drawn to. It’s a classic American tale, and I think when you sit there and watch the movie, it opens up to that. You get way past the idea of what the invention was and really get to the core of what the film is.

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