I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?
Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.