I Was 12 Or 13 Years Old.

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.

Also Expressionistic Filmmaking - Making The Audience Feel Like They Were Inside The Characters' Heads. And So We Create All These Different Types Of Techniques To Put The Audience There.

I'm Godless. I've Had To Make My God, And My God Is Narrative Filmmaking

I Think People Are People And, If Their Feelings Are Truthful, They Can Connect. It Doesn't Matter If You're An Aging, 50-something Wrestler At The End Of His Career, Or An Ambitious, 20-something Ballet Dancer.

The Whole Visual Language Of The Movie Is Developed Way Before We Get To Set. Especially When You're Doing Visual Effects And You Don't Have A Lot Of Money To Mess Around, Which We Didn't, You Have To Really Preplan Everything. Pretty Much Every Shot In The Film Was Figured Out Months Before We Got To Set.