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All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

Writing is not fun.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

Showing your movie to an audience ... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.