In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Whatever format we have tried to show the pictures in, on film or television, they have been blocked in one way or another,

It's a film we'll be seeing on television for 20 years, but it's not going to be in black when it leaves theaters.

We had to postpone them a week because (film critic) Roger Ebert wanted them to appear on his television show.

With a film like this that's starting with what would traditionally be the last outlet - a television broadcast - we thought it would be better to go with everything else at once.