text:  Well, I became a filmmaker shortly after college in the 70s, and the people I went to NYU film school with and knew in general were way on the left, and they were making left-leaning documentaries at that time, you know, pro-nuclear freeze, radical environmental films, and my first partner and I felt, well, there was nothing on the other side, and surely we would be able to counter that in a matter of a few years.