What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.