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Cgi Means, Just To Be Clear, Creating Any Type Of Image With A Computer. Basically, Starting Off With Nothing, Or With Images And Manipulating Them. The Way We Did It, Everything Was Actual Photographed Images. A Lot Of That Stuff Was Shot Through A Microscope Of Chemical Reactions, Yeast Growing, Lots Of Weird Things, By Peter Parks. We Put It Into A Computer And Collaged It, Manipulated It. Meaning We Digitally Shaped It To Fit With Other Images. But There Was No Computer-generated Imagery At All.

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.

Right After I Did 'the Fountain,' I Wanted To Go Make A Documentary Or Something That Was Less Constructed - More Natural. I Was Searching For A Project, And Sniffing Around, 'the Wrestler' Fit Right In

I Was Always Writing About The Connection Between Man And Nature. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood That Was Right On The Beach, But The Beach Was Not Like A Beach You Would Imagine - There Was A Lot Of Pollution. And The Most Magical Thing To Me As A Kid Was Sea Glass, So I Wrote About That A Lot.

It's Not That Much Of A Difference. Basically, Your Job Is The Same As A Film Director. It's A Triangle Between Creativity, Money, And Time. But They Don't Really Change. You're Ultimately Trying To Get The Most Creativity And Time With The Money That You Have.