Stone moved to Paris to write the script, believing he could not break his addiction while in the United States, stating in a 2003 interview that he was completely off drugs at the time "because I don't think cocaine helps writing.
史東搬到巴黎寫劇本，認為他在美國時無法切斷他的成癮，在2003年的一次採訪中說他當時完全脫離毒品，「因為我不認為可卡因有助於寫作，這是對腦細胞具有非常破壞性的。