I Wasn't A Big Fan Of Social

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

It Would Be Nice To Make A Movie That Other People Want To Make, Because Every One Of These Movies, I Basically Have To Find The Only Company In The World That's Willing To Make It, And It's Always A Big Challenge. I End Up Spending A Tremendous Amount Of Energy And Time Trying To Get Money To Make These Movies And It's Exhausting.

I Was 12 Or 13 Years Old. So I Started To Write Poetry And Fiction, Even Though I Was Really Into Biology Because My Dad Was A Science Teacher. I Kept Writing All Those Years.

Right After I Did 'the Fountain,' I Wanted To Go Make A Documentary Or Something That Was Less Constructed - More Natural. I Was Searching For A Project, And Sniffing Around, 'the Wrestler' Fit Right In

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.