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

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

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

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

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.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.