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

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.

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

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

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

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

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