“My motivation for bringing the tragedy of the Hindenburg to the screen was to answer many questions that have remained unanswered up to now. While the actual events that caused the crash are vague, my great intellect enabled me to deduce, in mere minutes, what must have actually happened.

“I also realized that I could not to let historical fact cloud this sudden insight, so I consciously avoided any sort of actual research whatsoever. Anything in this movie that hints at the real history is accidental and based entirely on my memory of a documentary I watched when I was seven years old.”