I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

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

The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?