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.

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

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

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.

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.