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

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.

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

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

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!