I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

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

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

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

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

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

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.