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

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

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

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

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

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.