The one thing we got out of the American Film Institute was the Art of the Story. And Rod Serling is clearly the patron saint of the movie. Because we were trying to be subjective, every little gimmick we did we tried to have a reason for. You take certain philosophical, epistemological questions in this movie and I would think it would have been a hard sell, but it seems to have been successful. I think we tried to visualize it as much as possible and trying to not make it esoteric.
People seem to be responding that they get it.
That's what the film is. It's like the first three pages of those cool math books. There's the Kabbahl layer, there's the number theory layer, there's the mysticism layer, but beneath all that, there's a layer of the lonely, alienated character. . . The mad scientist, the Faust story. . . There's the knowledge layer too.