The title doesn't just refer to love and sex, but to life and art. Lust for life; caution in society. And it's all from a woman's point of view–Ang Lee

My character makes a Faustian bargain, and from these diverse elements, Cronenberg mines dramatic and thriller excitement. I consider myself fortunate to have done two movies in a row with Cronenberg. With this movie, we explored language a little more than in History of Violence. But Eastern Promises is a logical follow-up to History of Violence–there are identity issues, explorations of traditional family structure, people dealing with moral dilemmas, and the question, is violence ever justified–Viggo Mortensen

At the age of 17, Lapica’s mother, concerned with his out-of-control behavior after the death of his father, hired a private company to forcibly kidnap and confine him to a locked-down adolescent hospital in St. George, Utah, called Brightway. While incarcerated against his will, he witnessed first-hand the emotional and physical abuses committed by the institution. Already an aspiring filmmaker at the time, he decided that one day he would make a film about the experience in an effort to expose these private, profit-driven institutions.

Hurricane Katrina highlighted how unready we are to swoop in to triage a large- scale disaster. What have we really done, since 9/11, to better homeland security Unfortunately, Katrina was devastating, and huge. If nothing else, I hope RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR might help us imagine how we might respond to such a complicated event–Chris Gorak