Jack Fisk rediscovers Los Angeles through Malick's eyes

Whether it's the private bowling alley where Daniel Plainview torments Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," the disarmingly simple Silencio theater in David Lynch's "Mulholland Dr.," or a single Victorian home perched on a hill of wheat in Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven," Fisk has created some of the most iconic spaces seen on screen in the past 40 years.

Fisk, 69, is a production designer.

He has been twice-nominated for an Academy Award, most recently for recreating the world of 1820s fur trappers in "The Revenant."

"Badlands" is also where Fisk met his wife, actress Sissy Spacek, with whom he shares two daughters.

The film is an expressionistic Los Angeles odyssey, following a screenwriter (Bale) who has lost his words through a series of relationships with the likes of Blanchett, Natalie Portman, and Freida Pinto.

For me, coming here is almost like an amusement park, said Fisk, who's called a Virginia farm home for the past three decades.

Temptation is a major theme for Bale's character in the film and Fisk found himself having to scout not just locations of serene luxury, but raucous Hollywood nightclubs, too.

There was no script for "Knight of Cups" either and all Fisk had to work with were identifiers like "Cate's house" and "doctor's office."