Orin's interview with Steeply (pp. 1040–1041)
The Moms for a while had video cameras installed so she could obsessively check whether Mrs. Clarke’d left the oven on or check her plants’ arrangement or whether all the bathroom towels are lined up with their fringes flush without physically checking; she had a little wall of monitors in her study at HmH; The Stork put up with the cameras but the sense I get is that Tavis isn’t going to be keen on being photorecorded in the bathroom or anyplace else, so maybe she’s had to have other recourse.
Context
Surveillance inside the filmmaker's own house, and it isn't his: Avril's O.C.D. runs a "little wall of monitors" in her study, cameras as compulsion-management — checking without physically checking, the lens as prosthetic for a phobia. The auteur is on the wrong side of the apparatus for once ("The Stork put up with the cameras"). Caveat from the text itself: the raw's own footnote a — "This may be a lie—no one else at E.T.A. knows anything else about there having been any cameras in HmH’s kitchen, bathroom, etc." — the one camera claim in the book flagged unreliable by its own apparatus (see Flags).