The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.
Make the important interesting.
I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.
When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'
I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.
That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
When I do a film, I want people to be spellbound by it.
'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
The thing with 'Alphas' is that, even though it's sci-fi, I run into lots of people that have watched the show for various reasons. They're like, 'I had no expectation, and I'm totally blown away and fascinated.'
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move on. If it's a mix of both, it's potentially more interesting.
I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.
