The Importance of Subtle Connections in Movies

"I think that for people, it's important to see how subtle it is," he says. "When you add up all these very subtle connections in a story, that's when people get a kind of magical sense of coherence." He doesn't want the symbolism to be too overt or detracting from the actors' performance. The director has also worked on Hellboy 2 and Dune.

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