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.

I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.

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

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

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."

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

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