I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

The important thing is to find what's unique about yourself, find what's unique about someone else. And embrace everything in the moment, as opposed to constantly comparing yourself and your lover and your relationship to a static set of expectations.

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

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.