TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

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 see (humor) in the smallest things.

I wonder if there is anything to discover.

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.

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.

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