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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 Always Writing About The Connection Between Man And Nature. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood That Was Right On The Beach, But The Beach Was Not Like A Beach You Would Imagine - There Was A Lot Of Pollution. And The Most Magical Thing To Me As A Kid Was Sea Glass, So I Wrote About That A Lot.

But Steady-cams Are Very Different Than Hand-helds, Because Hand-held Gives You That Verite Feel.

Artist And Illustrator R. Crumb Did A Whole Illustration Of Genesis. And He Didn't Go Away From The Text; He Was Totally Truthful. Reading Through That, I Was Like, "oh, Wow, It's A Comic-book Version Of The Bible." There's A Lot Of Heavy-duty Stuff That Goes On That Doesn't Make It Into Sunday School.

Now There Is So Much Expertise And Brainpower It's Hard To Be At The Cutting Edge Of What's Cool And Not Do Something That's Totally Geeky.