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

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

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

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

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.

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.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.