All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

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.

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 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.

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.