Spike Lee: About Hate, Families, Enron and Lesbians

»The inspiration for this movie came from the New York Times and reading the Wall Street journal when they broke the whole story on the Enron shenanigans, the McKinley's and them guys. And then it broadened to Bernie Evers at Worldcom and Dick Lizowsky] at Tyco, Martha Stewart, the Regis' at Adelphia, and just greed. Look, human beings are always going to be greedy, but this is, like, just bold-faced, they're not ever trying to be shy about it. Stealing money for the golf courses and paintings and all kinds of stuff. And then you see people being hurt. You know, I really felt sympathetic to the hard workers, the good hard-working Americans who worked at a company like Enron and put their life savings in Enron stock. And [it just] evaporated, and disappeared.«

So Spike Lee in a detailed interview with the australian filmcritic Paul Fisher. Here you'll find the long version