One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.