What Ever Happened to Hal Hartley?"I remember a magazine wanted to do a big photo spread with a bunch of us -- Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, six or seven of us -- the new indies," recalls New York's onetime next-great-auteur, seated at a long wooden table in the living room of his nearly empty West Village apartment. "Maybe I was just an asshole, but I refused to do it." Back in the early nineties, Hartley could shrug off that kind of attention. . . . But since 1997, either Hartley's left his audience, or his audience has left him.
New York Magazine, February 7