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.

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

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

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

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

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.

Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.