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I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

I Mean, If You Are Directing Actors To Do One Thing And Then Directing Them To Do Something Else Entirely Because The One Thing You Wanted Them To Do May Not Work, Then You Are Just Shattering Their Confidence In The Project.

I Think Entire Social Groups Are Formed Through Technologies That Could Never Exist In The Real World, And Relationships That Are A Function Of These Technologies' Ability To Accelerate Feeling And Emotional Contact.

It Is Not As Though The Process Of Production Holds Any Mystery For Me, I Know Exactly What It Involves And I Know The Predominant Concern In Shooting One Of Those Things Is Production Values - Or As They Would Say, Seeing It All Up There On Screen.

There Is A Certain Moment In The Film When The Son Is In The Nursing Home And He Goes To The Television And Turns It Off Because He Sees Himself In The Image.