I Couldn't Sleep One Night

For Too Long We Have Been Taking, And The Earth Has Been Giving. But That Free-for-all, That All-you-can-eat Buffet, It's Over. The Salad Bar Is Closed.

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 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.

I Had Some Big Ups And Downs When I Was In My 20s And The One Thing I Learned Was, No Matter How Low It Gets, Something Good Will Come Along - Something Always Comes Out Of That Dark Period.

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.