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

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.

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

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

Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

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