At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.