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

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 think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.