I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker,

My Hope Is That I'm Going To Continue To Make More And More Challenging Work That's Going To Come Out More And More Interesting. I Don't Know If That Will Always Continue To Happen, But Every One Of My Films Has Definitely Been A Progression As Far As Complexity Of Narrative, Character, And Plot.

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.

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.

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.