To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

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

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

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.