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

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

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

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

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.