After a certain point, cinema stopped giving me what I was once getting from it. I wanted to make my own movies the way they should be made. More like a collage or a tapestry. Something more like a feeling. Something that you are affected by.
Movies are visual.
It's a visual medium. I wanted every frame in my film to be something and, at the same time, I didn't want anything to seem contrived or overstylized. I just wanted it to be something that you hadn't seen before, that was exciting to look at. Like with the Solomon character, I knew that any way I photographed him it would be exciting because his face was so amazing. That's how I cast, really.