I'm Not A Comic Book Guy At

I Remember The Few Times That Happened To Me In Writing, Where You Basically Start Writing And You Look At The Clock And Six Hours Have Gone By And You're, Like, "whoa! What The Hell Just Happened?" And That Piece Ends Up In The Final Product Even Though The Final Product Is Three Years Away. It Doesn't Get Rewritten. It Came Out The Right Way. But That's Happened To Me So Few Times In My Life.

I Don't Make Films That Are Easy To Market, Unfortunately. I Think That 'pi' Was The Easiest One, Because We Had That Symbol To Stick Up Everywhere, So That Was A Good Gimmick, And Created A Good Mystery, And We Didn't Have To Do Huge Scale.

I Have A Team, The Same Team Of Filmmakers I Worked With On 'pi' And 'requiem'. Which Is My Cameraman, And My Composer, And My Producer. We've All Worked Together For A Number Of Films.

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.

Unfortunately, When You're Working In Film, It's This Huge Machine, And You've Got To Get Everyone Right There, So You Get Kind Of Locked Into Things. I'm Not Sure Where The Artistry In Film Making Is. It's Usually That Moment When You're On Set And You're Working With The Actors. That's The Time To Play Around, The Moment Of Theater. And Then You Can Shape Things. But A Lot Of It Is Just Managing Stuff. It's Upsetting Because You Get Away From The Core.