Every project starts with a story.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.