And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.