I'm Not A Comic Book Guy At

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.

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 It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances.

I Feel That So Many Sci-fi Films And Films In General Have Just Become Really Dependent On And Addicted To Cgi, And That Some Of The Big Cgi Films Of The Summer, You See These Effects That Look Like Crap. You Don't Know If You're Watching A Cartoon Or Something That's Real. And I Didn't Want To Fall Into That Trap. I Really Thought There Was A Way To Use A Lot Of These Old Techniques To Do Some New And Really Neat Stuff.

I Think That There's An Infinite Amount Of Places Where You Can Stick A Camera. There's An Infinite Amount Of Choices Of What Could Be Going On. There's An Infinite Amount Of Places For So Many Things, So You Have To Figure Out How To Do Your Job.