If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

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

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.

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

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