I Feel That So Many Sci-fi Films

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.

I Grew Up In A Family With Two Very Strong Women, My Mother And My Older Sister, And They Were Big Influences On My Life. I've Spent A Life Loving Women, And Studying Them As Much As I Can, Or Am Allowed To.

I Have A Team, The Same Team Of Filmmakers I Worked With On 'pi' And 'requiem'. Which Is My Cameraman, And My Composer, And My Producer. We've All Worked Together For A Number Of Films.

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'm Godless. And So I've Had To Make My God, And My God Is Narrative Filmmaking, Which Is -- Ultimately What My God Becomes, Which Is What My Mantra Becomes, Is The Theme.