Right After I Did 'the Fountain,' I

I Couldn't Sleep One Night And I Was Sitting In My Office And I Realized That I Was An Independent Filmmaker.

The Whole Visual Language Of The Movie Is Developed Way Before We Get To Set. Especially When You're Doing Visual Effects And You Don't Have A Lot Of Money To Mess Around, Which We Didn't, You Have To Really Preplan Everything. Pretty Much Every Shot In The Film Was Figured Out Months Before We Got To Set.

I Was A Tv Junkie As A Kid. I Am The Sesame Street Generation.

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.

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