As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!