I've Been Joking That If Madonna Taught

Now There Is So Much Expertise And Brainpower It's Hard To Be At The Cutting Edge Of What's Cool And Not Do Something That's Totally Geeky.

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.

Every Film Had Its Own Grammar. And It's Your Job As A Director To Basically Figure Out A Language To Tell A Story.

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.

I'm Godless. And So I've Had To Make My God, And My God Is Narrative Filmmaking, Which Is -- Ultimately What My God Becomes, Which Is What My Mantra Becomes, Is The Theme.