 At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. |
| Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky. |
| I'm not a comic book guy at all. |
| If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time. |
| Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. |
| I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. |
| When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world. |
| Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. |
| I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation. |
| As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it. |
| I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. |
| I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. |
| Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. |
| I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore. |
| I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. |
| Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. |
