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

When people think about the ark, they're always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.

People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing so radically right now. How much can the world take?

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.

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 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.