Casting Ethnic Characters Is A Very Hard

I Think There's Something In Collaboration - The Fact That You Can Sit There And Bounce Ideas Off Of Someone. It Definitely Matters Who The Person Is, Because Certain People... The Act Of Collaboration, Where You Can Talk To Someone, Hang Out, Get Ideas Going, There Is Something In That. That's Similar Between Everyone. But I Think Every Individual Collaborator Is Different, Because They Have Different Brains And Emotions And Ways Of Working, So It Changes. Definitely.

My God Is Narrative Filmmaking.

I Think It's My Nature To Try And Make Original Content, And That's What I've Done, Is Just Try And Approach Things In An Original Way, And Do Things Differently.

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.

Right After I Did 'the Fountain,' I Wanted To Go Make A Documentary Or Something That Was Less Constructed - More Natural. I Was Searching For A Project, And Sniffing Around, 'the Wrestler' Fit Right In