"We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing..." — David Farr

The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.