All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

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.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

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

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

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.

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