. >> he has a little of his roots in the delilah song he sings with jeremy renner. >> it's an interesting remember it. a few philadelphia guys went down. money talks, bs walks. all the great lines that came out of it. they caught these guys on tape. they caught the mayor of camden on tape. but in this they make the mayor a good guy. >> everybody has a little goodness. this is a not a cynical movie. the writer and director, he's a humanist. you know, i think what he's depicting is people who are inventing desperate to sort of free themselves from their identities and create something new. it's a real sort of homage to the american spirit of creativity and self-invention. >> it was both american and a hus. we're not like europeans, if you're a waiter in europe, a french waiter, you want to be a waiter for the rest of your life. >> in the wonderful speech that jeremy renner's character delivers, we dream, we build, this is what we do. there's this idealistic streak beneath the bad acting. >> i like it when amy adams, gorgeous in the movie, looks at him and says, this is me. she drops that ac