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.
Hal HartleyTRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
Hal Hartley9/11 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.
Hal Hartley