“I had no juice on Legends of the Fall (1994). But I had juice on Se7en (1995). With Se7en, I said, ‘I will do it on one condition — the head stays in the box. Put in the contract that the head stays in the box.’ Actually there was a second thing, too: ‘He’s got to shoot the killer in the end. He doesn’t do the ‘right’ thing, he does the thing of passion.’ Those two things are in the contract. Cut to: Se7en has been put together, and they’ve tested it. They go, ‘You know, he would be much more heroic if he didn’t shoot John Doe — and it’s too unsettling with the head in the box. We think maybe if it was the dog’s head in the box…’”
– Brad Pitt, interview for Entertainment Weekly (Sept. 2011)
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