My god is narrative filmmaking.

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.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.

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