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

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

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

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

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'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.