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.

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.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

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

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

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.