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

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

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.

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."

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

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

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