"We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly."

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Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It must have been like that with you and Snowden. But what if he'd been a graying guy with the same documents and far less intelligent things to say about them? In other words, how exactly did who he was make your movie and remake our world?

— Laura Poitras