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You Hear Stories About Directors Using Manipulation To Get Actors To Do Certain Things, But I Think When You're Working With Professional Actors, It's All About Trust. They Can Do Anything You Want, It's Just A Matter Of Them Understanding What You're Looking For, And The Reason Why.

I Think That There's An Infinite Amount Of Places Where You Can Stick A Camera. There's An Infinite Amount Of Choices Of What Could Be Going On. There's An Infinite Amount Of Places For So Many Things, So You Have To Figure Out How To Do Your Job.

The Whole Visual Language Of The Movie Is Developed Way Before We Get To Set. Especially When You're Doing Visual Effects And You Don't Have A Lot Of Money To Mess Around, Which We Didn't, You Have To Really Preplan Everything. Pretty Much Every Shot In The Film Was Figured Out Months Before We Got To Set.

I Don't Make Films That Are Easy To Market, Unfortunately. I Think That 'pi' Was The Easiest One, Because We Had That Symbol To Stick Up Everywhere, So That Was A Good Gimmick, And Created A Good Mystery, And We Didn't Have To Do Huge Scale.

Film Is A Great Tool To Play With Time, Going Back And Forth Through Time, Or Speeding Time Up And Slowing It Down And Do Stuff Like That. That's Something You Can't Experience In Real Life That You Can Experience On Film, And It Takes You To A Different Place.