To Me, Watching A Movie Is Like

I Think People Are People And If Their Feelings Are Real And Truthful, They Can Connect.

Classical Scores Go Up And Down; They're Kind Of Hysterical In A Way. And Movie Scores Are Much More - They Just Drive And Move Forward, And They Build And Can't Go Up And Down At That Same Speed. It's A Big Job To Turn That Into Something That Pushes The Movie Along.

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

Cgi Means, Just To Be Clear, Creating Any Type Of Image With A Computer. Basically, Starting Off With Nothing, Or With Images And Manipulating Them. The Way We Did It, Everything Was Actual Photographed Images. A Lot Of That Stuff Was Shot Through A Microscope Of Chemical Reactions, Yeast Growing, Lots Of Weird Things, By Peter Parks. We Put It Into A Computer And Collaged It, Manipulated It. Meaning We Digitally Shaped It To Fit With Other Images. But There Was No Computer-generated Imagery At All.

I Think Video Games And That Stuff Should Be As Violent As Possible, But Age-appropriate. It Should Be Realistic. When It's Not Realistic You Run Into Kids Running Around Shooting People And Not Realizing The Consequences.