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

Perhaps I'm just optimistic.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

Everybody's a specialist.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

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.