I Think I Came To Film-making Through

Turning 30 Was When My Parents Both Got Cancer And Were Fighting It And Beat It, But Their Mortality Started To Get To Me. Everything Wasn't As Hunky-dory Like It Was.

Film Is A Great Tool To Play With Time, Going Back And Forth Through Time, Or Speeding Time Up And Slowing It Down And Do Stuff Like That. That's Something You Can't Experience In Real Life That You Can Experience On Film, And It Takes You To A Different Place.

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 Only Want To Work With Actors That Really Get It And Make It Work. I Didn't Want It To Be A Star-driven Thing Anymore.

I Had Some Big Ups And Downs When I Was In My 20s And The One Thing I Learned Was, No Matter How Low It Gets, Something Good Will Come Along - Something Always Comes Out Of That Dark Period.