When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

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.

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

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

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.