I found a real Hands Across America commercial — I don’t know what I was searching to find it, but I just had this feeling of dread watching the amusing, bright optimism on display.
In conceiving this movie, I arrived at the Hands Across America commercial from one of these moments of feeling as opposed to thinking.
It took me back to a time where I was also afraid and young and vulnerable, and didn’t really know what was going on.
And that began to answer questions about what I was working towards.