The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

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.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.

Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.