It's been an exhausting series of events to get to this point.

The events of 9/11 had a massive effect on me, like everyone, and I wanted to use my position as a filmmaker to contribute something so they are not casually forgotten. By honoring the families who lost those they loved, I hope we can ensure that their sacrifice is remembered and hopefully seek wisdom in the future.

Competing at this level is an honour. The skills we practice for these events are those we use in daily emergency responses.

They come by and they have fun. We're going to be hosting some parties here and we'll be having events go on throughout the Olympics. We knew it was going to be popular, we didn't think we'd be averaging 1,000 people a day.

There are probably two sporting events in the world that are bigger than the festival in terms of people ... the Olympics and the soccer World Cup. The soccer World Cup sold 2.7million tickets last year and we sold 2.6million between all the festivals.

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s the availability of quality staff . . .” The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again.