Noah Was This Sort Of Patron Saint

When People Think About The Ark, They're Always Thinking About All The Thousands Of Years Of Religious Iconography Of A Ship With A Bow And A Deck, Where Noah And The Giraffes Could Walk Around. In The Actual Written Text It Is Basically Described As A Long, Rectangular Box.

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.

I Couldn't Sleep One Night And I Was Sitting In My Office And I Realized That I Was An Independent Filmmaker.

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.

Also Expressionistic Filmmaking - Making The Audience Feel Like They Were Inside The Characters' Heads. And So We Create All These Different Types Of Techniques To Put The Audience There.