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.

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.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

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.