Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.