I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.

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.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.