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 do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

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

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.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

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

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.