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.
“I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.”