To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
The good ideas will survive.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.