You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

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.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.