When I Go To Movies I Generally

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.

Noah Was This Sort Of Patron Saint In My Life. When I Finished Pi And I Started To Think About What Was Next, I Was Like, "wow, It's Interesting That No One Has Done A Film Of One Of The Greatest Stories Ever Told." Even If You're Not A Jew, A Muslim, Or A Christian, You Likely Have A Flood Story In Your Culture.

My God Is Narrative Filmmaking.

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.

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