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.

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

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable 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.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

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.