From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment.

It's always good to have guests come back,

and especially a guest who's always been so great to us,

my guest is director, Jay Roach, who first came here with the, oh my God, was it the first of the awesome powers movies you were here?

I think it was.

Yeah, and then you came back for Meet the Parents and now you've just done a really interesting, a different new film for HBO recount about the 2000 presidential election and more importantly, the controversy

about the vote count in the state of Florida.

First of all, Jay, thanks so much for coming back.

It's great to be here. I've always had fun on the show.

This is a very different kind of movie for you

because I've never been as aware of faces.

It's almost like watching a series of photographs

as it was watching this movie.

Yeah, that's interesting. You know,

we've thought about what adjustments we would make when you were shooting something for television,

and I did use more close-ups, you know, and obviously the cast lent themselves to that. I mean,

you have Kevin Spacey and Tom Wilkinson, Laura Dern, Bob Balaband, Ed Bigley,

and I, you know, so much of what was going on in their characters was, was in faces. And I think

it's also, for me, I was trying to explore techniques that are a little bit more about drama

and suspense. I think in comedy, sometimes you sort of hold back a little bit more about drama and suspense. I think in comedy sometimes

you sort of hold back a little bit to see gestures and comedy likes wider shots and even

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