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.

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

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

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

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

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