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.

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.

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

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

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

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.

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