I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.