“But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.”

“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.”