If You Establish Rules And Play By

I Do Find Myself At The Moment, Due To The Success Of School Of Rock, To Be On People's Radar A Little.

Definitely My Generation And Beyond Grew Up In Theaters And When You Make A Film You Think Of The Theatrical Experience. You Think Of That Big Screen In The Darkened Theater With A Lot Of People, So That's Always The Thought Behind It. If That's The Case, It's Nice If That's Available. That's Great, But I Don't Really Mind If They're Watching Films On A Plane. I Don't Mind. Anybody Who Just Wants To Watch A Movie, I Can't Complain. If That's The Way They're Going To Watch Them, That's The Way They Watch Them. Who Am I To Judge?

Normally My Process Is To Sit In A Room And Read A Script And Talk About It And Ask Questions And Just Create A Dialogue. That Goes All The Way Through Shooting. All Kinds Of Thoughts And Ideas Can Find Their Way In There. As Long As You're All On - We're Just All Trying To Tell The Story So My Job As A Director Is Just To Find Out What This Film Wants To Be Based On, It's Just Words On A Page At Some Point But Then It Just Needs To Go To Some Level Of Believable Storytelling. I'm Discovering The Film As I Make It, To Some Degree.

Everything That You Could Think About In Life, Or Experience, Or Be Interested In, Theoretically Should Be Expressed Or Dealt With In Cinema. But The Way Typical Narratives Are Set Up, There's No Room For Philosophy, Because It's Just Digressive Material. It's Not Advancing The Plot, So There's No Place For It. It's The Kind Of Stuff You Would Cut Out, And That You Shouldn't Have Put In There To Begin With.

I Don't Think All Films Should Necessarily Look Like They Do On Digital Video. I Think It Cheats The Audience, At Some Point. If You Try To Make An Epic And You Shoot It Digitally, That Doesn't Make Much Sense. I Think There's A Certain Kind Of Film That Could Be A "digital Film." But It Shouldn't Be Interchangeable With Other Films. It Should Be Something More Than Just A Capture Medium. It Should Be A Different Form Altogether, Something New.