I Think We're A Little Bit More

The Situation They [journalists And Edward Snowden] Were In Was Incredibly Heightened. The Stakes Were High. There Was A Lot Of Pressure, A Lot Of Tension, A Lot Of Sense Of Claustrophobic, Clandestine Energy That I Think Was Exhilarating For Us To Explore And Recreate. We Were Fortunate To Shoot A Fair Amount Of Our Stuff At The Actual Hotel Where It All Happened In Hong Kong. That Added Another Element Of Very Similitude To The Situation, So I Feel Like It Was Exciting.

I Met Glenn [ Greenwald] Briefly In 2009. We Were Both Guests On Real Time With Bill Maher. I Was The Show's Guest And He Was On The Panel. But This Was Before The Snowden Stuff Happened. I Didn't Have The Opportunity To Meet Him In Preparation For The Movie, Unfortunately, For Various Reasons. But I Was Able To Dive Into The Main Articles He's Written, And Interviews With Him, And Just The Function That The Character Serves In The Movie, That Was Enough For Me.

We Just Have To Have Visibility. We Have To Have Acknowledgement. We Have To Have Accountability To How We Treat One Another.

Maybe It's Because It's Connected To My Childhood, Or It's Connected To The Origins Of What Drove Me Creatively, But I Feel Like My Life Never Makes More Sense Than When I'm In That Process.

J.c. [chandor] Was The Kind Of Energy We Were Looking For, So We Decided To Get Behind It With All Of Our Effort. That Was The Beginning Of Our Relationship With First-time Feature Directors, And That's When It Became Really Important To Us, Watching Them Thrive And Grow In A Creative Environment In Which You Can Do That Was Really Key. Also His Work Checked All The Boxes, Because It Was Socially Relevant And Intellectually Driven, And Creatively Exciting.