What I loved about it was it didn’t preclude us from creating.

“In every election, somebody doesn’t win. That doesn’t preclude us from waking up the next day and still working on the things that are important to our communities,” he said.

In that case, the government even tried to preclude the usage of the terms "whistleblowing" and "First Amendment."

But they go on to reject “an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence … that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.”

It’s one thing to know where a story is headed — that doesn’t preclude a movie from generating plenty of emotional stakes.