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

When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.

Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

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

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

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.

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