My God Is Narrative Filmmaking.

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.

These Wrestlers Aren't Organized. They Have No Union, No Pension And No Insurance. You Meet Wrestler After Wrestler Who Sold Out Madison Square Garden Ten Years Ago, Basically Running On Fumes Today. There's A Lot Of Drama There.

The Only Way I Know As A Director Is To Figure Out What The Film Is About. And Out Of The Theme And The Sense Of What The Film Is About, All Those Decisions Start To Make Sense. But To Find That Truth Within It, You Have To Limit Your Possibilities And Limit Your Choices. That's Where This Visual Language Grows Out Of.

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.

In Seventh Grade I Had A Magical Teacher, Her Name Was Mrs. Fried. She Wore Only Pink, She Drove A Pink Mustang, And She Was Half Out Of Her Head. But Very Inspiring. And One Day She Said, "take Out A Paper And Pen And Write Something About Peace." For Some Reason I Wrote A Poem On Noah - I Don't Know Why I Chose Noah - And It Turned Out It Was For A Contest For The Un. I Ended Up Winning And Reading The Poem In Front Of The Un. I Remember Mrs. Fried Telling Me, "when You Write Your First Book, Dedicate It To Me." That Was Like, "whoa."