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I Think I Came To Film-making Through Writing. I Started To Write, And People, Teachers, Responded To My Writing.

When I Go To Movies I Generally Want To Be Taken To Another World.

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've Been Joking That If Madonna Taught Us Anything, You've Got To Reinvent Yourself. 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. I've Tried To Take A Chance With Every Film I've Done - I've Never Done It The Easy Way, And I Think That's Because That's What Excites Me, Is Making As Big A Mountain As I Can In Front Of Me, And Just Trying To Mount It.

I Was 12 Or 13 Years Old. So I Started To Write Poetry And Fiction, Even Though I Was Really Into Biology Because My Dad Was A Science Teacher. I Kept Writing All Those Years.