To Me, Watching A Movie Is Like

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.

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.

As Filmmakers, We Can Show Where A Person's Mind Goes, As Opposed To Theater, Which Is More To Sit Back And Watch It.

I Grew Up In A Family With Two Very Strong Women, My Mother And My Older Sister, And They Were Big Influences On My Life. I've Spent A Life Loving Women, And Studying Them As Much As I Can, Or Am Allowed To.

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