I Hope That Requiem Is Better Than

I Think People Are People And, If Their Feelings Are Truthful, They Can Connect. It Doesn't Matter If You're An Aging, 50-something Wrestler At The End Of His Career, Or An Ambitious, 20-something Ballet Dancer.

I Had Some Big Ups And Downs When I Was In My 20s And The One Thing I Learned Was, No Matter How Low It Gets, Something Good Will Come Along - Something Always Comes Out Of That Dark Period.

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.

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.

I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances.