One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don`t have to fake it.
I`m not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don`t feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn`t mean it has to be about myself.
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We`re all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.