“Honestly, I think all of my movies have a huge emotional content,” he said. “I’ve never understood the people who think that my movies are cold. I think they’re balanced, but not cold. But anyway, this one is more obviously emotional because it deals a death of a wife and it begins with that, and so I guess it’s more obviously more straightforwardly emotional than something like ‘Crimes of the Future.’” Another movie that dealt in death, decay, and biotech.
“It was a total overwhelming experience to deal with the doctors, endless radiation, chemo, all of that. There’s no time to think about art. I wasn’t thinking about that,” he said. “I actually didn’t think I would ever address it [artistically].”