Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,

Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.

behind-the-scenes look at television's most egomaniacal diva.

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

It's kind of that period in your 20s when you're on the verge of something and you feel that you're playing musical chairs, ... The music's about to stop and you'll have to sit down somewhere and you hope that you're making the right decision before it's too late. All the characters are well-intentioned, they're all trying to please everyone, and I think that's where they make bad choices.