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.

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

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

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.

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