If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

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

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.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.