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 had no idea that he was going to write that but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence no matter what the business did.
