“Are you slow to get information? You said you just learned about the convention center. There's 25,000 people there; reports of dead bodies, rapes, fights breaking out.”
“What are your priorities now? We are looking at no food and water, these horrific security issues, all of these tens of thousands of people that need to be evacuated. Where is the priority? There seems to be an inadequate response in all areas.”
“Why is that, Mike? I know that you had identified this as a major problem, that New Orleans had potential for great disaster, but what is it that you did not anticipate?”
“What about these poor people that couldn't get out of the city. Was there any way to evacuate more of these people before the storm hit? They knew this storm was coming.”
“The reason I did this movie, and the reason I am proud of how it's turned out is everything you see can be interpreted two different ways, ... It is asking these questions and not giving any answers whatsoever. As a perfect example, there are these scenes where scary things are happening in the middle of the night and my character wakes up and it's filmed in a beautiful way by our director, and the question is when you look at that, what's happening? Is it spiritual craziness or is she having anxiety attacks?”
“They sort of ambushed me, ... They say, 'We want you to come work for us.' I went, 'Why? Doing what? You guys already have it covered.' They asked me, 'What would you be interested in doing?' I said my passion really has been theater.”
