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

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

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

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

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.

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.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.