Now There Is So Much

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.

I Was Always Writing About The Connection Between Man And Nature. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood That Was Right On The Beach, But The Beach Was Not Like A Beach You Would Imagine - There Was A Lot Of Pollution. And The Most Magical Thing To Me As A Kid Was Sea Glass, So I Wrote About That A Lot.

I Think People Are People And If Their Feelings Are Real And Truthful, They Can Connect.

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 Think That There's An Infinite Amount Of Places Where You Can Stick A Camera. There's An Infinite Amount Of Choices Of What Could Be Going On. There's An Infinite Amount Of Places For So Many Things, So You Have To Figure Out How To Do Your Job.