[edward Snowden And His Team]

[edward Snowden And His Team] They're Great Characters. They're Fascinating People. They Were In An Extraordinary Situation.

I Found Myself In A Pattern Of Being Attracted To People Who Were Somehow Unavailable, And What I Realized Was That I Was Protecting Myself Because I Equate The Idea Of Connection And Love With Trauma And Death.

While We Were Shooting The Movie, We Shot In The Actual Hotel In Hong Kong Where It All Went Down, The Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras Was Coming To Hong Kong To Do A Screening Of Citizenfour, And She Ended Up Staying At The Mira Hotel. It Was Her First Time Back In Hong Kong, And I Ran Into Her In The Elevator. Literally I Had Just Finished Shooting One Day, And I Came Back To The Hotel And She Was In The Elevator.

I Remember Our Conversations [with Zachary Quinto] Always Being Frustrated That We Weren't Doing What We Wanted To Do, But Also Filled With The Determination That We Were Going To Overcome That.

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.