I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

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

My god is narrative filmmaking.

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

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