The way visuals work in theater is different from the way they work in film. Identify with him or not. I can only draw stick figures. I'll tell you, it came from an acting exercise. We did a lot of dream work.
Form is dictated by the content and the other way around.
That's very much the way my brain is bent. I tend to like productions that play with space. Most productions we see are very horizontal, and the productions that I tend to connect to play with depths of space. So that prepared me. With form meeting content, I also wanted the movie to be akin to my experience of when people tell me urban folk tales, that they can't possibly be true and yet, there's something about the sincerity of the teller, the passion of the teller, and the tapping into the zeitgeist of the tale.