As filmmakers, we can show where a person’s mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Every film had its own grammar. And it’s your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it’s not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
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.
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.
I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
My god is narrative filmmaking.
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.