We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

I see (humor) in the smallest things.

9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.

Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.