He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.
Interiors were shot at a hotel in City of Industry, California, while other scenes were shot at a sound stage in Silver Lake.
So every morning around 11 they arrive and hole up in their mini recording studio adjacent to the sound stage.
We make it in Hollywood, in the Directorate Building, the part that used to be a sound stage.