I'm Godless. I've Had To Make My

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.

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

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.

I Was Always Writing About The Connection Between Man And Nature. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood That Was Right On The Beach, But The Beach Was Not Like A Beach You Would Imagine - There Was A Lot Of Pollution. And The Most Magical Thing To Me As A Kid Was Sea Glass, So I Wrote About That A Lot.