Ezra Edelman

What does it feel like to catch yourself doing that, though?

I mean, because it's still, but that's, you know, we've talked about this.

It's the tree falling in the forest thing.

It's like it still exists.

that when no one gets to see it... It's an indescribable feeling.

That one I've been wrestling with and dealing with for a while.

I mean, like, I don't want to make this... You know this.

The reason I don't want to do this, because this is not like woe is me.

It's like people's films get shelved all the time.

All the time.

And there have been examples of this in the feature space and the documentary space.

There's no guarantee of anything.

Ever.

This is just unique because of the subject, the time, the high profile nature, all of these things, the public interest in some ways.

But yet the way you just described that are holding our public figures to account.

I'm like, I wasn't making a film about Richard Nixon after Watergate.

I was telling someone's story.

And it's more like once you see certain things, you can't unsee them.

There are things I might be interested as topics to pursue that those come from me.

But when someone tells me about a harrowing incident that she experienced, here are my two choices.