I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

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.

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

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

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

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

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.