It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.