I ALWAYS WANT everything I do to be somewhat CINEMATIC. I don't want to be the RAPPER that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it.

For city dwellers like me who don't GET to vacation in the summer, no FILMMAKER can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for AUGUST, fell in LOVE, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 MINUTES or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'

A LOT of cinematic INFLUENCES on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my FAVORITE movie. It has been SINCE I was 12. I just love that film.

I DRAW on a lot of CINEMATIC influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, ARTISTS who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be ALLOWED to TELL some of that story.

And it's one reason why I don't GO to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as OPPOSED to CINEMATIC concerns.

I love WRITING dialogue, and I THINK a LOT of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

I often FIND myself feeling that filming MUSIC is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of SOUND and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player LIKE me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

I never felt it wasn't MINE. But I was ALSO very respectful of not knowing what I didn't KNOW. Because the Marvel Cinematic Universe is very DEEP, and UNLESS you live in it you can't possibly know it all.

I BEGAN to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the NEW YORK art world. FILM was INTRIGUING. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

I THINK in the wake of the domination of the Marvel CINEMATIC UNIVERSE, everyone is now LOOKING for a grand PLAN.

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been DONE before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or PIECES from the CINEMATIC WORLD that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

In my early CAREER as a documentarian, I SUPPOSE I was trying to make films which - where it was all about MAKING a BIG cinematic statement, and I think with 'Marley,' I slightly changed my DIRECTION and adopted a more mellow approach.

Who do I have a CINEMATIC CRUSH on? I MEAN, it's such a go-to: Michael B. Jordan. I was like, it's everybody's go-to. Who else?

I want to work with a wide RANGE of GENRES because it gives each film a different cinematic ENERGY.

In terms of specific cinematic influences, CERTAINLY I'd recommend 'Juan de LOS Muertos,' and I also REALLY love this French ZOMBIE movie - 'Les Revenants' - where the dead reanimate for no apparent reason.