Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

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

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.

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.

I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.