Grant Gee, speaking to Rolling Stone, said, “From the start it was quite clear that they were quiet and articulate people being put through this industrial process of sort of being vacuumed for image and information and quotes and thoughts.” Audio filters in, a shot of a highway, their head of PR listing off the schedule of radio spots and magazine appointments they have. Instead, Gee cuts together interview segments illustrating the band’s attempts to give thoughtful answers to people who want cut-and-dried quotes. At one point, another journalist, whose face we don’t see, wonders, “What is the stupidest question you’ve been asked?” The answer isn’t shown. This is one of the more straightforward sequences in the documentary, which is largely impressionistic, a collage of sounds and video captured in dark hallways, stuffy hotel rooms, and pre-show concert rehearsals. Yorke, who looks off to the side, bemused, quips that he had a good conversation with Calvin Klein about underwear. A journalist asks Yorke if the presence of celebrities at their concerts means anything to the band.

In Grant Gee’s 1998 documentary Meeting People is Easy, which follows Radiohead’s OK Computer tour, every band member, particularly frontman Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood, field questions both condescending and unoriginal.

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