When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

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.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.