A Conversation with Albert Maysles

What are your current projects?

I am working on several projects. One of them, In Transit, is a project about trains, and really about people I traveling on trains in six different parts of the world. I travel on long distance trains in each one of these countries, and I hope to find on each trip, in each one of these countries, at least one person with a story when they get off the train. I film them on the train, but then, most importantly, the story when I get off. I filmed the story, for example, of a women who is on the train, she had never seen her mother since she was three, and the night before she got a call from a women three hours away by train, saying “I am your mother! On the next train I’ll be waiting for you at the train station…” and I filmed the whole encounter. So it’s an attempt in one film to bring the world together.