I Hope That Requiem Is Better Than

I've Been Joking That If Madonna Taught Us Anything, You've Got To Reinvent Yourself. I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances. I've Tried To Take A Chance With Every Film I've Done - I've Never Done It The Easy Way, And I Think That's Because That's What Excites Me, Is Making As Big A Mountain As I Can In Front Of Me, And Just Trying To Mount It.

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 Try To Live My Life Where I End Up At A Point Where I Have No Regrets. So I Try To Choose The Road That I Have The Most Passion On Because Then You Can Never Really Blame Yourself For Making The Wrong Choices. You Can Always Say You're Following Your Passion.

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.

Casting Ethnic Characters Is A Very Hard Thing To Do, But It's Important. It's Also Interesting.