I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.