The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.