We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

It used to be that you had to have a lot of money to make a high quality film. Now, with digital video, anyone with a camera and a home computer can be a filmmaker.

Part of the excitement about these 24-hour festivals is seeing where they will go. It will be interesting to see how everyone survives it.

Last fall, when this (tour) started we showed some short films, and it didn't really fit with the rest of the tour. So we wanted to do something that people could come in and look at.

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.