Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to make: a very talky film of people and ideas about our contemporary state with regard to relationships, marriage, sex, and romance. I started trying to educate myself about filmmaking.

A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.