The Whole Visual Language Of The Movie Is Developed Way Before We Get To Set. Especially When You're Doing Visual Effects And You Don't Have A Lot Of Money To Mess Around, Which We Didn't, You Have To Really Preplan Everything. Pretty Much Every Shot In The Film Was Figured Out Months Before We Got To Set.
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
I Don't Make Films That Are Easy To Market, Unfortunately. I Think That 'pi' Was The Easiest One, Because We Had That Symbol To Stick Up Everywhere, So That Was A Good Gimmick, And Created A Good Mystery, And We Didn't Have To Do Huge Scale.
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 Hope That Requiem Is Better Than Pi. I Hope That Pi Is Better Than My Student Films, And I'm Hoping That I'm Getting Better As I Get Older.
Comic Books And Graphic Novels Are A Great Medium. It's Incredibly Underused.
These Wrestlers Aren't Organized. They Have No Union, No Pension And No Insurance. You Meet Wrestler After Wrestler Who Sold Out Madison Square Garden Ten Years Ago, Basically Running On Fumes Today. There's A Lot Of Drama There.
Animators Have To Live Life 24 Times As Long As We Do - Every 24 Frames Of A Second.
I've Always Wanted To Introduce Hip-hop Filmmaking To Film. There's Hip-hop Art, Dance, Music, But There Really Isn't Hip-hop Film. So I Was Trying To Do That.
The Only Way I Know As A Director Is To Figure Out What The Film Is About. And Out Of The Theme And The Sense Of What The Film Is About, All Those Decisions Start To Make Sense. But To Find That Truth Within It, You Have To Limit Your Possibilities And Limit Your Choices. That's Where This Visual Language Grows Out Of.
I Feel That So Many Sci-fi Films And Films In General Have Just Become Really Dependent On And Addicted To Cgi, And That Some Of The Big Cgi Films Of The Summer, You See These Effects That Look Like Crap. You Don't Know If You're Watching A Cartoon Or Something That's Real. And I Didn't Want To Fall Into That Trap. I Really Thought There Was A Way To Use A Lot Of These Old Techniques To Do Some New And Really Neat Stuff.
