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.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

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.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.