As I upload this, today Talking Heads are back together for the premiere of the new edition of Stop Making Sense, and are hosting a Q&A together at Toronto International Film Festival (2023-09-11). This was a similar event that happened on April 26th 1999, where they got back together to carry out questions & answers at a press conference the day before a new edition of Stop Making Sense premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival to celebrate the film's 15th anniversary.

Since this event, the only time that David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth gathered together was in 2002 for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, so over 20 years later it's pretty significant that they're doing it again alongside all the new Stop Making Sense stuff that's happening!

I spent a while noting down timestamps and questions (summarized, not word-for-word) for easy navigation to find questions. First two questions are asked by the host, Peter Scarlet, but later questions are taken from a variety of others in the audience.

00:00 [band enters]
00:55 [intro by host]
02:40 any memories (of collaborating on the film) that you can share?
06:50 do you think your movie killed the rock concert film genre?
09:15 how similar was the movie to shows you were doing?
10:25 what's been changed in the film? (remixed audio)
10:45 how do you guys react to it 15 years later, how do you feel it stands up?
13:15 speaking of outfits, how did the big suit work? how much engineering was involved in getting you in?
14:00 did you have to practice your moves in it or did you get used to it right away?
14:18 how did you develop the lamp dance?
15:44 what songs didn't make it to the final edit, and what influenced the setlist decisions?
17:20 question about tom tom club & evolution of working together
21:10 what was the editing and collaborative process like? was there a director's cut? who had a say?
25:50 was there any pressure from people behind the project (regarding Jonthan Demme)?
26:10 [cuts out] was there criticism for Demme doing this type of project?
27:10 the elephant in the room, has seeing this again re-inspired you to do something together musically?
27:40 it struck me how athletic your shows were, did you ever get sports injuries?
30:12 i can't recall seeing cameras in the film, how inconspicuous were they while on stage?
30:50 what was your reaction to seeing how audiences reacted? was it weird seeing yourself like that?
32:00 (about the financial balance of music videos/tours) how would you get more variety of people out on tour?
36:45 how much convincing did it take / how long did it take to arrange for the four of you to come together for this?
37:40 have you ever been asked to have your song used in commercials?
39:30 how much creative participation did you have in your early music videos?
40:15 what were some of the impulses that permitted you to be so subversive?
42:58 what criticisms were there for the appearing a bit "conservative" or "retro" at the time? (about early aesthetic/standing out from other bands)
45:40 what do you all do now?
46:30 i saw you play at philadelphia zoo
47:00 what films have you seen recently have been inspirational?
48:25 do you feel like talking heads still maintains an influence in current scenes?
48:55 (record company can be especially controlling now) do you think because of the time you came out you were able to establish your own identity and cross pollinate?
53:45 what were your favorite periods/albums/memories from the band?
1:00:10 [host provides outro]

Recorded Monday 26th April 1999 during a press conference held at Dolby Labs in San Francisco, the day before Stop Making Sense premiered a new Dolby Digital print at the 42nd San Francisco Film Festival on the 27th. This video is credited as being supplied courtesy of The San Francisco Film Society, special thanks to Graham Leggat, Miguel Pendás and Peter Scarlet (who hosted the Q&A) and has been included in Blu-Ray editions of Stop Making Sense.
There were unfortunately a couple of short glitches where the video froze for 5-10 seconds but I have edited those moments to be shorter blips (they happen around 26:15 and 57:00)