I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

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 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.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.