What skills did Joseph take from architecture that helped launch such an impressive entrance into Hollywood? How did his architectural education at Columbia move him towards becoming a filmmaker? Listen to my conversation with him to find out.

In 2004 Archinect introduced Les Jumelles, a short film created for Nike by KDLAB, a New York-based design studio founded by Joseph Kosinski and Dean DiSimone. Click here to read the interview.

We had a phrase on our first website, in 1999, that said we were "interested in exploring the blurred boundaries between architecture, graphics and film". A lot of people thought that was hilarious at the time. But, that's what we wanted to do.

Oblivion started as a short treatment for a film. I wrote the first treatment in 2005, then the writers strike happened, and I couldn't hire a screenwriter, so I developed it as an illustrated novel.

I think architecture is an amazing training ground for a number of fields - filmmaking being just one of them... is having an architecture background helpful in "designing" a movie? Of course it is.... What's even more useful, in my architectural education, was the methodology of architecture. The ability to think critically. The ability to form a thesis for any project that is a guiding principle for every decision you have to make along the way. That style of thinking was probably the most useful thing I learned in architecture school, and really applies to filmmaking.

An architect can have a vision for a building, but there's no way he can create it himself. It's the same for a director. You need a very specific vision of exactly what you want in the end, but just important is your ability to communicate that vision across a crew of hundreds or thousands of people that are pushing to achieve that vision.

A lot of people say I'm really into sci-fi. I've only made two movies, and they both happen to be science fiction movies, so, I think people assume that's the only thing I'm interested in, but that's not the case at all. Right now I'm working on a car racing movie that takes place in the 60's, a spy thriller that takes place today, in addition to the Twilight Zone movie which has elements of science fiction in it, along with many other elements.