I've Always Wanted To Introduce Hip-hop Filmmaking

You Hear Stories About Directors Using Manipulation To Get Actors To Do Certain Things, But I Think When You're Working With Professional Actors, It's All About Trust. They Can Do Anything You Want, It's Just A Matter Of Them Understanding What You're Looking For, And The Reason Why.

I Think People Are People And If Their Feelings Are Real And Truthful, They Can Connect.

I Feel That So Many Sci-fi Films And Films In General Have Just Become Really Dependent On And Addicted To Cgi, And That Some Of The Big Cgi Films Of The Summer, You See These Effects That Look Like Crap. You Don't Know If You're Watching A Cartoon Or Something That's Real. And I Didn't Want To Fall Into That Trap. I Really Thought There Was A Way To Use A Lot Of These Old Techniques To Do Some New And Really Neat Stuff.

I Was 12 Or 13 Years Old. So I Started To Write Poetry And Fiction, Even Though I Was Really Into Biology Because My Dad Was A Science Teacher. I Kept Writing All Those Years.

My Hope Is That I'm Going To Continue To Make More And More Challenging Work That's Going To Come Out More And More Interesting. I Don't Know If That Will Always Continue To Happen, But Every One Of My Films Has Definitely Been A Progression As Far As Complexity Of Narrative, Character, And Plot.