I'm Not A Comic Book

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.

I Think There's Something In Collaboration - The Fact That You Can Sit There And Bounce Ideas Off Of Someone. It Definitely Matters Who The Person Is, Because Certain People... The Act Of Collaboration, Where You Can Talk To Someone, Hang Out, Get Ideas Going, There Is Something In That. That's Similar Between Everyone. But I Think Every Individual Collaborator Is Different, Because They Have Different Brains And Emotions And Ways Of Working, So It Changes. Definitely.

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.

I Wasn't A Big Fan Of Social Anthropology. And, Luckily, That Created Room For Me To Work In Visual Arts Because I Sort Of Ignored My Requirements. I Think I Was Attracted To Social Anthropology Because I Liked To Travel And Was Always Interested In Far-off Places.

It Would Be Nice To Make A Movie That Other People Want To Make, Because Every One Of These Movies, I Basically Have To Find The Only Company In The World That's Willing To Make It, And It's Always A Big Challenge. I End Up Spending A Tremendous Amount Of Energy And Time Trying To Get Money To Make These Movies And It's Exhausting.